An office comedy told entirely through the horrors of group chats
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Has Slack taken over your life? Then you need to add Several People Are Typing to your reading list. Centered on the workplace-messaging tool, the humorous novel follows Gerald, an employee at a New York PR firm, whose consciousness has been uploaded into his company’s Slack channels. Gerald asks his coworker Pradeep for assistance in finding his body and getting out of his Slack hell. The novel examines office politics, the dynamics of working from home, and the pursuit of human connection. It also hits home for the diehard Slack users here at Enterprise HQ. “Humans are geniuses of communication, and we're going to find ways to connect with each other … There are also advantages for tremendous moments of grace and connections that you wouldn't have been able to make in person that you can make in this sort of more flat or more distant digital space,” author Calvin Kasulke said during an interview with NPR.