Working from home certainly has its benefits: you’re saving money, you’ve got less things to distract you, and you don’t have to deal with a hectic commute. However, a recent survey has found that Canadian home-workers are…lonely. Loneliness and isolation, it turns out, are among the major downsides of working solo.

In a Canadian Business article that recently featured iQ, writer Carol Toller cites the rising trend of flexible shared workspaces such as iQ as the ideal cure for work-at-home professionals who want to have access to an office environment without the accompanying time and infrastructure costs of traditional commercial office leases.

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