Hidden - Unemployment

On Friday at 4:55 PM, the results were broadcast company-wide. Total headcount to be reduced: 12%. Elias scanned the list of names. His was not there. Cara’s was not there. Neither were Marcus’s nor Linda’s.

The elevator doors opened. Elias walked back to his desk in a daze. hidden unemployment

In the gleaming glass-and-steel tower of Audax Solutions, the quarterly report was a work of art. On Friday at 4:55 PM, the results were

She picked one up—Elias’s coffee consumption map. She read it. Then she looked at Elias. His was not there

Elias Thorne, Senior Logistics Coordinator (Grade 7), stared at his screen. His inbox was empty. His calendar was a white void. For the past eleven months, he had arrived at 8:47 AM, brewed a single-origin pour-over, and spent the next seven hours and thirteen minutes perfecting a spreadsheet that no one had ever asked for.