This post is meant to be more of a fun observation than a super-serious critique of the interplay between media and society.
I was born in the 80's and didn't enter the workforce until the early 00's. I watched some network sitcoms as a kid and a teen and a lot of the popular ones had the characters casually hanging out in their homes or coffee shops, like Friends, Frasier (he only worked at the radio station 3 hours a day), Seinfeld, these characters spent a lot of time in their apartments and at restaurants.
Over the past decade and a half, a lot of sitcoms and comedy shows are now workplace-centric, the most obvious one just for the name alone, The Office. Then you have Parks & Rec, Superstore, Party Down, Animal Control, all the characters in these shows spend the majority of their time in their work setting, to the point where their entire lives revolve around the place where they're employed. They get into relationships with coworkers, most of their big life events revolve around work. They are hardly ever seen in their own homes or off the clock.
I think this trend is a sad reflection that as inequality grows and wages stagnate, we start to live to work instead of working to live and our entertainment gets influenced by that. In the comments, if there are any, I'm sure there will be all kinds of exceptions to this very vague and general rule I've touched on above 😉