Working in isolation can pose mental health challenges – here’s what anyone can learn from how gig workers have adapted

Susan Ashford, Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Michigan, Erin Reid, Associate professor, Human Resources & Management, McMaster University, Brianna Barker Caza, Associate Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro, and Brittany Lambert, Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, Indiana University
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This shift has employees and managers navigating new workplace challenges, not least of which is mental health concerns from working in isolation. Now more than ever, there is much to be gained by learning from the lived experiences of gig workers – anyone working independently on a “gig-to-gig” basis. Many have experienced and experimented with managing a form of radical agency, flexibility and autonomy in an environment where working in isolation was a norm long before it became a more global reality.

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