The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn
Published 2020 · 37,125 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century to read?
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century scores 68 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 52 out of 100
- Plain words in a flat institutional register.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Short numbered statements.
- Abstraction: 72 out of 100
- Personhood treated as an abstract question with almost no scene.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Light per statement, cumulative in effect.
- Narrative indirection: 78 out of 100
- Unnumbered speakers, human and humanoid, never identified.
- Symbolic density: 68 out of 100
- The objects carry the entire argument.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- The bureaucratic frame against the feeling underneath.
- Resolution withholding: 82 out of 100
- Nothing is explained; the report simply stops.
- Structural complexity: 82 out of 100
- Numbered witness statements with gaps in the sequence.
How The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century is regarded
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century holds a literary regard score of 41 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.