How Remote Work may Damage Our Brains and What to Do About It

"Every time we have a real-life interaction with somebody our younger vagus nerve, sometimes also called our social engagement system is activated and exercised, like a muscle."

Whaa? Where does this come from? Extraordinary claim with no citation, somehow linked to loneliness?

I get that remote work may be lonely for some people, but I've been doing it for years now, and it's the most relaxing, friendly, and pleasant work environment I've ever been in. I'm a thinker, and I need to be alone with my thoughts.

I can absolutely see remote work as leading to possible depression in people, but once you bring in vagus nerve stuff, that's just confusing - it's a nerve for our parasympathetic system and can be excited by our emotions, absolutely, but it's not part of a "social engagement system", as far as I'm aware.

the main problem is that most people have moved their social life at the office so there is little left when u stay near home all day.

FUD

This article is full of pseudoscientific speculation. I had anxiety and mild depression working in an office. Remote work has brought me so much peace and I've been doing it for well over a year now.

Apparently a nerve running through my gut that stimulates when I push my bowels too hard is ruining my brain because I don't subject myself to corporate slavery masked as healthy normal socializing.

Who in the world writes this propaganda and why?