The future of employers and employees

fiction

  • Part 4

    I opened my eyes to a screen. Not my phone. Not my laptop.My headset. My brain refused to process what it was seeing. The interface hovered inches from my face, familiar and wrong all at once. I felt the tight pull on the back of my head, my hair already pulled into the pony tail Read more

  • Part 3

    The next day Walking into work, apprehension filled my gut. I looked over near the break room. The yXX rep was already sitting at her makeshift desk, bright eyed and stiff spined at 5AM like she never left the building.I shook my head and sat at the bench next to my locker until Natalie arrived. Read more

  • UPDATE 1 & 2

    Dozens of hands moved in a synchronized rhythm, each pair occupied with assembling pieces of a product whose purpose no longer mattered to us that built it. Fingers darted, twisted, pressed and secured parts with mechanical precision. Their owners spread along a factory line, their eyes looking elsewhere. These used to be jobs requiring full Read more

  • PART 2.5

    I looked at my long messy hair in the mirror. I tried to get myself in gear but I couldn’t, I wasn’t sure if I was going to be ok to work today. The dreams I had last night, well if you want to call them that. Felt so vivid. The emotions were intense, and Read more

  • Drones Part 1

    Dozens of hands moved in a synchronized rhythm, each pair occupied with assembling pieces of a product whose purpose no longer mattered to us that built it. Fingers darted, twisted, pressed and secured parts with mechanical precision. Their owners spread along a factory line, their eyes looking elsewhere. These used to be jobs requiring full Read more