How to meet people as a remote worker

How to meet people as a remote worker. The concrete options, ranked by what actually works.

Remote work removes the most reliable system most adults had for meeting people — showing up somewhere regularly with the same group. What replaces it requires more intention. Here is an honest account of what works and what does not.

Friendship requires repeated contact over time. Remote work removes the structure that provided it.

Research on how friendships form consistently points to propinquity — repeated, unplanned proximity. You become friends with people you see regularly, often without any explicit intention to do so. The office was an extremely effective friendship generator because it put you in regular contact with the same people in low-stakes situations over extended periods.

The standard advice for remote workers — join clubs, take classes, go to coworking spaces — is not wrong, but it is slow. These all work, but they take months to produce anything resembling genuine friendship. Meanwhile, the social deficit accumulates.

The distinction that matters is between strategies for building long-term friendships (clubs, coworking, regular activities) and strategies for maintaining adequate human contact in the short term. You need both, and they are different things requiring different tools.

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