She left a lot of boxes blank. The system immediately flagged them amber, a gentle, automated notification popping up in the corner of her screen.  Its tone was perfectly calibrated to simulate human concern: Incomplete profiles generate suboptimal team matches. Please ensure all fields are populated to maximize your workplace harmony. Mina looked at the…

The morning should have begun with an optimization report. Owen hadn’t received one for some time. As far as the system was concerned, he was no longer a verified entity. He was a glitch. He made his hot chocolate. The machine let out a wet, mechanical wheeze as it struggled to process the hand-ground cacao. …