Rob Hart's new book: When Big Brother meets Big Business

Inspired by the ‘gig economy’, The Warehouse is set in a near future world that is horribly believable – zero rights, low pay, devices tracking your every move. Author Rob Hart hopes it will be a wake up call for us all, writes Suzanne Harrington

Rob Hart's new book: When Big Brother meets Big Business

Inspired by the ‘gig economy’, The Warehouse is set in a near future world that is horribly believable – zero rights, low pay, devices tracking your every move. Author Rob Hart hopes it will be a wake up call for us all, writes Suzanne Harrington

Imagine a future where low- paid workers run around endless aisles grabbing random items as fast as they can, so that they clock up literal kilometres every day, as their shoe soles wear out and the danger of dehydration is ever present. Where they dare not sprain an ankle, and their performance is constantly starred out of five.

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