They are way ahead of you. Worked for one of the biggest European banks, and and now everyone has to pretend there’s no hierarchy and calling anyone “boss” is strictly forbidden.
I used to work in management consulting, and part of the work was figuring out the "effective" chain of command, that is, how decisions were actually made rather than how the company claimed their structure was.
I ran into a couple companies who were all about "hey we're totally groovy, horizontal, and we don't have awful bosses". Every time I would present a potentially critical situation and ask how the choices would be made and who would give the orders and who would execute them. These companies tended to be even more hierarchical and less collaborative in general than the companies who had a clear delineation of roles and responsibilities.
Then I quit because fuck capitalism and making fatcats more moneyz.
Thought this show was gonna go an amazing direction, but then it went into conspiracy-drama and dropped the whole "let's figure out what is happening by working together and learning from our limited info" to "lets play hero and figure it out and solve it ourselves without the others" story.
I finally given this show a watch. The theme I most enjoy was "What is identity without memory". The "innies" and "outies" divide without memory/experience of the other and I thought was a super heavy concept. It's hard to define "who you are" without being equipped with the sum of your knowledge and experiences. Then add the rigid, cold, and inhuman/inhumane hierarchical workspace and you have a pretty gripping story. I also like the weird anachronisms, I feel like a lot of real offices have relics from the past all over the place like old equipment, old rooms, and just little baubles here and there all over the place. To me all this creates an extremely bleak (but narrative rich) escalation of alienation. The show itself is good (haven't finished it) but the premise cool. It's like Stanley Parable + Office-space + Twilight Zone + The film "Brazil".
