This Hot Spots series zooms in on the images and re-evaluations of work/labor and changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic. It does so by bringing together scholars from various anthropological subfields and research foci: economic anthropology, anthropology of labor, political anthropology, anthropology of migration, anthropology of gender, and digital anthropology. Thinking across themes and subfields is particularly pertinent, since re-evaluations of work/labor—new labor mobility trajectories, digitalization, changing perceptions of education and job qualifications, role of unions, rising inequalities—are entangled processes the COVID-19 pandemic has both laid bare and enhanced. Furthermore, this series adopts a global perspective by bringing together insights from several European contexts, the United States, India, China, Latin America, West Africa, and the Middle East. In so doing, it addresses the diverse, dis/connected and sometimes radically different developments across political economies and ideological struggles to stimulate novel, comparative perspectives. The issue uses as an entry point the question “Where have all the workers gone?” in a twofold sense: as an empirical question that ethnographers often encounter in the field (when studying e.g., labor shortage, digitization, or new forms of protest); and in terms of an epistemological reflection on where anthropologists today locate labor, work(ers), and their struggles.