The company

A stunning satire on corporate life. The novel that answers your company's biggest questions.

• What are the merits of sleeping with the boss? Are the steps to the top of the company shorter or equal to those of a colleague who doesn't know the way to their superior's bed? In the face of a new restructuring, who will be invited to "pass through HR"?
• Is physical aggression an appropriate response to management standards?
• “Our mission is…”: should we take this seriously?
• Why is that reserved parking space always empty?
• Grabbing another roll at the morning snack bar: a sin of gluttony or a non-bailable crime?
• If the company is undergoing reengineering, isn't that a sign that the last one was a waste of time and money?
• What does the board do all day anyway?

Welcome to Zephyr Holdings, a company where the employees have never seen the CEO, the receptionist with enviable physical attributes earns twice as much as the other employees, and one of the salespeople is making a huge fuss because someone stole his donut during lunch.

In other words, a large company like any other. Or at least, that's what everyone thinks. Until newly hired Stephen Jones—too young to understand that some questions should never be asked—begins to investigate Zephyr's corporate mysteries. The new employee soon discovers the company's secret , the answer to everything: what Zephyr Holdings really does and why every manager carries a copy of the Omega Management System .

In this provocative work, Max Barry, author of the highly praised Me Inc. , questions the culture of large corporations.

“Fans of Dilbert and The Office – and anyone who considers corporate life