Of course, that means a majority of the work force continued working in person throughout the last two years. worked exclusively from home by May 2020, that figure rose to 43 percent, according to Gallup. Before the pandemic, in 2019, about 4 percent of employed people in the U.S. The last two years ushered in an unplanned experiment with a different way of working: Some 50 million Americans left their offices.
But for many others, it amplified a sense that they didn’t belong. Office banter, for example, might have been a small annoyance for a segment of workers. It was one size fits some, with the expectation that everybody else would squeeze in. The office, in other words, was never one size fits all. The design of that early office, not so different from the one that modern workers experience, fit the needs of a particular employee: someone who could stay late because he didn’t have to rush home to make dinner for his children someone pleased to cross paths with the boss because it meant time to talk golf. When one of America’s earliest open-plan offices debuted in Racine, Wis., in 1939, women made up less than one-third of the country’s labor force. Egziabher got a promotion and an 11 percent raise: “If I had continued going into the office,” she added, “there might have been some excuse around likability.”
Several months into being sent to work from home, Ms.
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