Nairobi, June 8 -- At 6am, the alarm rings as usual. Coffee is made, and work clothes are laid out. Then comes the realisation: there is no bus to catch, no matatu to flag down and no practical way to get to the office.

For thousands of Kenyan workers, the recent public transport strike turned an ordinary workday into a familiar dilemma. Stay home and hope your job can be done remotely, or spend hours scrambling for alternatives that may not exist.

More than six years after Covid-19 forced the world's largest work-from-home experiment, Kenya's workforce is still caught between two realities. Some jobs can easily be done from home, while others grind to a halt if the employee cannot get to the office.

Last month's fuel strike exposed mo...