India Inc: Do employees dream of Excel sheets?

A clean split of work and life sounded like a good idea before Apple TV's dystopian workplace thriller 'Severance' showed up to remind us of how far off we are from work-life harmony

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Have you ever wished you could forget all about your workday as soon as it's finished? Are your nights haunted by emails and endless meetings-even in your dreams? If so, Severance might be just the show for you. This fictional series follows employees who've undergone a procedure called 'severance.' As a result, their consciousness is split: they have no recollection of themselves or their personal lives within the workplace, nor any memory of the workday as soon as they exit their office. At first glance, this may sound like an ideal work-life balance. Unplugging is hard, after all, and who wants to dream of spreadsheets? But this Apple TV show reveals darker shades of what a work/home partition for this sort of binary amnesia could mean.

While none of us works for Lumon Industries, the show's employer, or even for a company half as secretive (we hope), Severance serves up plenty that Indian workers may find familiarand should make employers squirm.