How Remote Work Has Changed Dating for Busy Professionals
A 2025 paper in Science pooled 5 nationally representative surveys covering close to 590,000 American workers. People in remote-capable jobs were more isolated during the workday and went out less in the evening as well, with the effect sharpest among those living alone. The second half of that finding is the one nobody had measured [...] The post How Remote Work Has Changed Dating for Busy…
A 2025 Science paper examined dating habits of remote-capable workers, finding they isolated more during work and socialized less in the evenings. As office attendance dropped to 2-3 days per week, other social sources like coworkers, family, and neighborhood connections diminished. Online matchmaking overtook meeting friends for heterosexual couples around 2013 and has since grown.
Younger professionals entering the workforce after the office declined had fewer workplace friendships to begin with. Remote workers face challenges like scheduling social plans deliberately or missing out on unplanned encounters found at the office. Long-distance relationships have become more common due to remote workers settling in smaller towns with smaller local dating pools.
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