Movies: Workplace

CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory, is also a society in itself. A mythological microcosm and science's answer to the Tower of Babel, with its many thousand employees as an indispensable element among cables and computers. The researchers s...

This short film illustrates some of the perceived problems a supervisor might face working with women, but ultimately demonstrates where the real problem lies....

The driver of a space taxi deals with technical issues and an irritating alien pop star....

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Boku Otaryman (I, Otaku Salaryman) is a fun little 35-minute ditty about a Japanese Salaryman and his somewhat otaku tendencies. Originally based off of a 4koma, the anime is about a likable and rather silly salaryman named Yoshitani....

Jan is in the last year of his apprenticeship. He wants to be taken on and he wants to do everything right. But what is the right thing to do when restructuring increases the pressure on Jan and his colleagues, when redundancies are the order of the ...

The footage for I Want to Be a Secretary has been reclaimed and reworked from a selection of all but forgotten post-war recruitment films encouraging the modern girl to pursue a secretarial career. What other path is open to an independent-minded you...

An overview on safety precautions that protect forklift operators on the job....

Karen Zaitchik jumps on and off moving boxcars, throws switches, pulls brakes and uncouples freights with ease and confidence. She's a railroader for CN and that's what this 21-year-old highly individualistic woman wants out of life for the moment. T...

A debt-settlement meeting turns into a surreal nightmare of ego, sexism, and chaos....

Following the journey of a Glaswegian litter picker and the strange and compelling locals he meets in a single day. Sometimes, what you notice when others don’t can change how you see everything....

Work is becoming more service oriented and more and more services rely upon us doing harm to each other. In most people's lives, work operates as a degrading and debilitating force. It disables people's critical and perception capacities. Unless wor...

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This video shows ways to prevent or defuse violent situations in retail stores, particularly during an armed robbery....

An introduction to the employment picture in Canada in the late 1950s, designed to inform potential immigrants of job opportunities existing for women. The film reviews many fields of work in which women are engaged, ranging from the highly specializ...

Richard and Brock thrive at their advertising agency until Richard uncovers a secret Brock has been hiding, threatening their partnership and the future of the company....

Hello and welcome to the Nine to Forever Program. And happy work day! I hope you are content with your well deserved rest, as you have got quite a big and exciting day ahead of you! In "Nine to Forever," two individuals find themselves trapped in a ...

After mutilating his fingers, a carpenter decides to go back to work to support his family and prove that he can still do it....

A hapless salaryman navigates the corporate hierarchy of his surreal office space in pursuit of a raise and a promotion. THE Promotion....