Chapter 807

Getting off work at 10:20 p.m.— in Night City, that was practically a luxury.

Even though the standard corporate workday had long been stretched to a numbing 7 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., that extra fifty minutes of overtime was still considered “humane management” by other corps’ standards.

And for a megacorp like Biotechnica, the fact that its employees could survive an entire day using only their organic brains and basic biological stamina—without stimulants to stay awake, without neural enhancers to maintain focus, and while still performing at stable efficiency— was so absurd by Night City standards that it almost felt like dark corporate humor disguised as “employee welfare.”