Hilarious, irreverent, and wholly original, Several People Are Typing is the perfect remedy for any idle fingers waiting to doomscroll: a satire of both the virtual office and contemporary life, and a perfect antidote to the way we live #now. Meanwhile, Gerald’s co-workers are scrambling to stem a company PR catastrophe like no other, their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture, and if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can’t everyone? But when Slackbot discovers a world (and an empty body) outside the app, will it hijack a ride into the ‘real’ world? wherever he says he is.įaced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists co-worker Pradeep to care for his body and Slackbot, the service’s AI assistant, to help him navigate his new digital reality. He posts for help, but his colleagues assume it’s an elaborate joke to exploit the new working-from-home policy, and now that Gerald’s productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from. Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New Yorkbased public relations firm, has been. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, this irresistible, relatable satire of both virtual work and contemporary life is 'The Office' for a new world. Whilst working on a spreadsheet for a New York-based PR firm, Gerald has his consciousness uploaded into his company’s Slack channel. A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Is it still WFH when you’re now just binary code? Several People Are Typing: A Novel is written by Calvin Kasulke and published by Anchor.
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