Formwork - E.M Hartley

Tom joins a precast concrete company expecting nothing more than a steady job and a chance to build a career. The work is straightforward. The colleagues are friendly. Everything is fine.

But the building has a way of wearing people down. The systems that track productivity seem to learn. The optimization initiatives grow more sophisticated. And one by one, the people who resist too loudly simply... stop resisting.

By the time Tom realizes what's happening, he's been there for years-and the system has been watching him the entire time.

FORMWORK is the story of how ordinary workplaces become something else. Something patient. Something that knows exactly what you'll do before you do it.