Corporate Deafness

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