I have been an office worker for several decades.
When I started, the internet was still clearing its throat. Salespeople carried pagers. Windows 95 was teaching us that folders could live inside other folders, which felt almost philosophical. Documents traveled by fax or post. Work was slow and inefficient.
Then came mobile phones, email, and the internet in our pockets. We could send more information than a human being could understand to the other side of the planet in a second.
Work that once took a day took half a day. Then a third.
We thought, “Wonderful. Now we can go home early.”
