According to government research, more people are working from home than ever before. (1. CONSEQUENCE) ________________, there has been an increase in (2. LONELY) __________________ among those people who no longer have to travel to their place of (3. EMPLOY) ____________________ . Official workers spend their day (4. SURROUND) ___________________ by friends and colleagues, while home-workers rarely meet anyone face to face. The most direct means of (5. COMMUNICATE) a home-worker has with the world (6. OUT) _________________ is the telephone. The fax and the internet are two more (7. TECHNOLOGY) ________________ links that can be used, although they still rely on the written, rather than the (8. SPEAK) word. What a home-worker really wants is the (9. WARM) ___________________ of a human voice, not the (10. DIGIT) _______________ bleeps of a computer.