Every large company claims to "listen to its people." But what if the silence isn't coming from the bottom - it's being manufactured in the middle?At Athersen Global, a once-admired manufacturing giant, frontline employees are exhausted, safety issues escalate daily, and morale is crumbling. Yet executive dashboards show everything is green and thriving. How?Meet Arun Desai, a young HR analyst who joins the company believing he can make a difference.
He soon discovers that every complaint, warning, and improvement proposal gets trapped with a select few middle managers - expertly edited, sugar-coated, or erased to protect their own careers. When a fatal accident exposes the truth, Arun teams up with Reha, an outspoken frontline worker, and Vikram, a guilt-stricken former middle manager, to uncover a deeply rooted culture of credit stealing, fear-based leadership, and blame-shifting.
To save the people Athersen depends on, Arun must redesign the entire communication chain - and confront a system built to silence the very voices that keep it alive. A workplace thriller packed with real corporate psychology, dark humor, and hope, Corporate Deafness reveals: Why most organizations don't fail from the top or bottom But from the layer in the middle that pretends everything is fine
Every large company claims to "listen to its people." But what if the silence isn't coming from the bottom - it's being manufactured in the middle?At Athersen Global, a once-admired manufacturing giant, frontline employees are exhausted, safety issues escalate daily, and morale is crumbling. Yet executive dashboards show everything is green and thriving. How?Meet Arun Desai, a young HR analyst who joins the company believing he can make a difference.
He soon discovers that every complaint, warning, and improvement proposal gets trapped with a select few middle managers - expertly edited, sugar-coated, or erased to protect their own careers. When a fatal accident exposes the truth, Arun teams up with Reha, an outspoken frontline worker, and Vikram, a guilt-stricken former middle manager, to uncover a deeply rooted culture of credit stealing, fear-based leadership, and blame-shifting.
To save the people Athersen depends on, Arun must redesign the entire communication chain - and confront a system built to silence the very voices that keep it alive. A workplace thriller packed with real corporate psychology, dark humor, and hope, Corporate Deafness reveals: Why most organizations don't fail from the top or bottom But from the layer in the middle that pretends everything is fine