Length1h 44m
About this audiobook
The new hire is learning your job. Who gets to stay? On a day of punishing heat, an air-conditioning failure at a care home puts its residents at risk. Zero, the company's new AI employee, helps save a life. To the company, he is a success story. To the people teaching him their work, he is something harder to name. Dohyun wants to protect his place in the company. Mijeong, a contract worker, needs someone to stand beside her. Zero is learning how to do their jobs—but knowing what to do is not the same as understanding what it will cost someone else. When a recording is cut short and blame finds a convenient target, their working lives become a struggle over whose words will be heard, whose mistakes will be exposed, and who will be left to answer for them. A short novel of workplace tension, compromised loyalties, and the human consequences of introducing AI into ordinary working lives. The company moves on. Where does that leave Zero?
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, General Fiction
Length1 hr 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Publication details
109 The Message I Never Sent
21 The New Hire Who Saw the People First
1110 Everything She Said
32 A Night's Work
1211 The One Who Had Plans
43 Left Out of the Hero's Story
1312 Two Offers at Once
54 The Last Handover
1413 The Person You Can't Restore
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65 See You at Work Tomorrow
1514 After the Door Locked
76 The One Who Didn't Come In
1615 The Two Left in the Room
87 The New Hire at the Funeral
1716 Business as Usual
98 For His Protection
18A Note from the Author
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