Employees returned to in-person work globally with ease of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet working remotely for at least a portion of one’s workdays (i.e., hybrid work) has remained prevalent and popular. Employees are therefore choosing to continue working alone in solitude. Scholars have often assumed that solitude leads to loneliness, but this sole focus on the negative side of solitude does not allow for the possibility that many employees embrace and enjoy solitude in remote work. In this research, through a qualitative study that analyzes 801 employees’ naturalistic reports of solitude from Reddit, we explore employees’ experiences of solitude in remote work from a more balanced perspective. We find that employees’ experiences of solitude depend on how well they internalize and mentally represent their immediate, physical environment, as well as their distant, socially embedded community. Such representations and preservations then depend on the implicit relationship theories about the relationships between their selves and these two environments that they form and carry with them from in-person work. These theories influence their experiences of solitude, at the beginning, and their coping with such experiences afterward.