What a Way to Make a Living
The Employees
By Olga Ravn
7 Feb, 2022
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Olga Ravn’s 2018 The Employees: A Workplace Novel of The Twenty-second Century is (unsurprisingly) a workplace novel of the twenty-second Century. The 2020 translation is by Martin Aitken.
The Six-Thousand Ship has arrived at the planet New Discovery and fallen into orbit around it. This is a commercial venture. The crew, a mix of humans and artificial humanoids, labor endlessly to please their superiors back at the head office.
How does the crew feel about their experiences? A committee carries out an eighteen-month series of interviews to find out.