Why most Black office workers are dreading the return to offices

After working from home for more than a year because of the pandemic, she received an email notifying her an office-return date had been set, and, in an instant, she said she “felt tense. It was immediate. I had felt like that before — when I was about to skydive in Arizona.”

“But that wasn’t what made me feel like I couldn’t breathe when I read the email,” said McPherson, who works in website development and maintenance. “It was the snide remarks, almost always about race. I loved my job, what I did, but as one of three Black people in an office of about maybe 80, there was always something from my white colleagues that made me feel uncomfortable or offended me.

When Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, she said she overheard a manager say, “Guess that boat to Africa gonna be full.” At the same time, 21 percent of white professionals look forward to a return to full-time work in the office.“That’s because they don’t have to deal with the microaggressions we do,” said Crystal Lowe, who works in marketing and public relations in Atlanta. “And, yes, when you throw in the other elements of the last year, well, it’s really bad. Who wants to work in the office? I’d rather clean up dog poop. And I am serious.

“And some people who were not as ‘woke’ woke up,” Lowe said. “And now they’re asking those ‘woke’ people to go into an office where they have always been marginalized? That’s a hard thing to do.” The study was revealing of the vastly different experiences at work for Blacks and whites: Only 53 percent of Black workers said they were “treated fairly at work,” while 74 percent of white workers said they felt that way. Also, 54 percent of Black workers claimed a “good or very good” sense of belonging at work, while 70 percent of white professionals did.

NBCBLK Trumps fault

NBCBLK I don’t believe this. But if true, people need to toughen up

NBCBLK 97% of white workers don’t want to return to the office for the exact same reasons.

NBCBLK if you are waiting for reps to get on board with the idea micro-agression, systemic racism, discrimination even exists, not to mention helping fix it... I'd start packing my bags, I guess.

NBCBLK granted there are areas which need work on systemic racisim, but if you aren't going to work over 'micro-aggression'.. it's not yet an option. yes, decent, rational people want equality 4 all and no animosity, but there is lg sect of reps who don't want that.

NBCBLK Hmmmm, work from home in my PJs and no traffic ooooor have to get fully dressed, deal with traffic, office politics, then traffic again. But let's blame it on racial microaggressions.

NBCBLK Top 10 Countries you should never visit 😱

NBCBLK whitepeoplebad

NBCBLK It's nice to be able to blame your problems on outside forces. I do not have such privilege.

NBCBLK 🤣🤣🤣

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