Unlike everyone else, Americans and Britons still shun the office

The backlash against remote work, when it came, was fierce. After a post-pandemic honeymoon, when many firms flirted with the idea of letting staff work from home for ever, bosses began summoning them back to the office. “I’ve had it with this…I’ve been working seven days a goddamn week since covid and I come in and—where’s everybody else?” groused Jamie Dimon, boss of JPMorgan Chase, in leaked comments from a recent meeting.