Severance's Lumon Has Some Disturbing Real World Tech Company Parallels
Warning! SPOILERS for Severance.
It is not easy to label Severance's Lumon Industries as one specific type of business, but there are several similarities between the mysterious company and real-world tech giants. In Severance, those who work for Lumon Industries are viewed with both prestige and suspicion by society at large due to the company's controversial severance process. Among Lumon's employees is Mark Scout, the main character of Severance, who works in the almost secret department for severed workers.
While much has yet to be revealed about what or who is behind Lumon Industries, a few clues here and there help to better understand what's happening in Severance. The memory switch process most likely has a better motive than just increasing productivity, and it may be hiding a terrifying truth about Severance. In addition to all the show's mystery, what has already been seen about Lumon makes it possible to draw a series of parallels between the series and famous real-life work environments.
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The similarities between Lumon and real-world tech companies range from architecture to daily work practices. Lumon Industries' hyperbolically wide, multi-level building resembles the landscraper that Google has in London, even though the main events of the show actually take place on a much more reserved basement floor. The department in which Mark and his colleagues work is extremely flat, almost claustrophobic, with no source of natural light, creating an interesting duality. Lumon has an entire complex available, and yet the most important projects in the company might be taking place in a much simpler and more secretive environment.
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