Long Shot
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Last published Fri, Apr 16, 2021
Employees of Officescape, a growing office furnishings company, are all caught up in tangled webs of the ambition, jealousy, pride and revenge that comes with work politics and relationships. At a crossroads in the corporate world, with the rise of the internet and e-commerce, will Officescape's factory and office workers, managers -and even their family members -be able to survive the dot-com bubble burst as Y2K approaches?
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