Several People Are Typing

Whilst working on a spreadsheet for a New York-based PR firm, Gerald has his consciousness uploaded into his company''s Slack channel. He posts for help, but his colleagues assume it''s an elaborate joke to exploit the new working-from-home policy, and now that Gerald''s productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from . . . wherever he says he is. Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists co-worker Pradeep to care for his body and Slackbot, the service''s AI assistant, to help him navigate his new digital reality. But when Slackbot discovers a world (and an empty body) outside the app, will it hijack a ride into the ''real'' world? Meanwhile, Gerald''s co-workers are scrambling to stem a company PR catastrophe like no other, their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture, and if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why