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Jessi Hempel discusses the hit series Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat with its creators, exploring workplace dynamics and modern work culture.

Work can feel a little surreal. Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat makes that feeling literal. In this episode of Hello Monday, Jessi Hempel sits down with Lee Eisenberg, writer and co-creator of the Jury Duty franchise, and Nick Hatton, executive producer, to talk about the hit series. The show’s premise is simple but radical: one real person dropped into a completely staged world, surrounded by actors. In Company Retreat, that world is the workplace. Specifically, a hot sauce company navigating a looming acquisition in the midst of their annual retreat. Beneath the comedy, the show lands because it feels real. Lee has built his career capturing the nuances of human behavior at work, spending 5 years in the writer’s room for The Office before co-creating Jury Duty. Nick, too, has built a career in comedy, with past producing credits such as Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and This Is America. In this conversation, they unpack how they recreate workplace dynamics so convincingly, why audiences connect so deeply with these stories, and what the show reveals about modern work culture. Jessi, Lee, and Nick discuss: The "David vs. Goliath" design behind Company…

People in this episode

Host: Jessi Hempel

Guests: Lee Eisenberg, Nick Hatton

Topics covered

• workplace dynamics
• comedy
• modern work culture
• human behavior
• company retreats

Keywords

• Jury Duty
• Company Retreat
• workplace
• comedy
• human behavior
• acquisition
• gig workers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jury Duty, The Office, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, This Is America, Company Retreat, hot sauce company

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