EditorialTasha Almanza at a park after work with her sons, Koda Alto and Makoah Alto, in Oceanside, Calif. on Feb. 8, 2023. (John Francis Peters/The New York Times)
EditorialTasha Almanza at a park after work with her sons Koda Alto and Makoah Alto in Oceanside, Calif., on Feb. 8, 2023. (John Francis Peters/The New York Times)
EditorialTasha Almanza at a park after work with her sons Koda Alto and Makoah Alto in Oceanside, Calif., on Feb. 8, 2023. (John Francis Peters/The New York Times)
EditorialTasha Almanza at a park after work with her sons Koda Alto and Makoah Alto in Oceanside, Calif., on Feb. 8, 2023. (John Francis Peters/The New York Times)
EditorialTasha Almanza at a park after work with her sons Koda Alto and Makoah Alto in Oceanside, Calif., on Feb. 8, 2023. (John Francis Peters/The New York Times)
EditorialNelima Kerre, who stopped riding the subway out of safety concerns, takes a cab home after her shift as a manager at a Manhattan club, Jan. 23, 2023. (Gabby Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialEric Myclmont works as a mobile car detailer on a hot Saturday in Brooklyn?s Flatbush neighborhood, May 21, 2022. (Anna Watts/The New York Times)
EditorialGuillermo Ramírez sits on his bed after work next to the oxygen tank used by his hospitalized daughter at his home in Silao, Mexico, on Jan. 24, 2022. (Luis Antonio Rojas/The New York Times)
EditorialBryan Giles walks to a bus stop with his cat Chloe after work in Boulder, Colo. on Jan. 3, 2022, to head back to a shelter for the night. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialClippings from a Hartford Courant Magazine story from 1942 about Black tobacco laborers? after-work activities, in Simsbury, Conn., Oct. 28, 2021. (Yehyun Kim/The New York Times)
EditorialClippings from a Hartford Courant Magazine story from 1942 about Black tobacco laborers? after-work activities, in Simsbury, Conn., Oct. 28, 2021. (Yehyun Kim/The New York Times)
EditorialA demonstrator holds a photo of Delaina Ashley Yaun while protesting the killing of eight people, six of who were women of Asian descent, who were killed during attacks on three Atlanta-area spas on Tuesday, in Atlanta, Saturday, March 20, 2021. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialValerie Brown, a fast-food worker, waits for the No. 17 to get home after work in Detroit on April 8, 2020. (Emily Rose Bennett/The New York Times)
EditorialHelen, a bunraku puppet that is part of Robin Frohardt’s public art installation “The Plastic Bag Store,” takes the subway home after work at the museum, in New York, Oct. 29, 2020. (Amy Lombard/The New York Times)
EditorialValerie Brown, a fast-food worker, waits for the No. 17 to get home after work in Detroit on April 8, 2020. (Emily Rose Bennett/The New York Times)
EditorialConstruction workers have their temperatures checked and wash their hands after work in Bangkok, April 7, 2020. (Adam Dean/The New York Times)