Today’s workplace comedies are able to pull in massive audiences and a cultural relevance that keeps them on top of the all-time best television lists. As with most modern workplace sitcoms, entertainment is a top priority, and so is realism. It’s particularly welcome as some of these shows depend on the fickle American workplace culture. They follow the office precedent, they focus on issues like racialized minorities, gender relations, and the Schadenfreude of tearing your colleagues apart.
Ann-Marie Slaughter, the former Princeton professor and State Department who now serves as the president and CEO of the New America Foundation, once wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Timesabout America’s workplace culture. The phenomenal essay bordered around the workplace-culture beat. In a similar fashion, some of the shows mentioned below are complementary of our work lives.