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An assessment center is a field of trials under the guise of evaluating talent. Participants exhaust themselves with group exercises and presentations, only to be judged by vague interviewers’ whims. It touts fairness and efficiency, yet becomes a device to test stress tolerance and corporate servility. Successful candidates emerge not as proven talents, but as warriors who endured needless ordeals.

The workforce is the corporate battleground where personnel are traded at executives’ whim. Promised “flexibility” in brochures, it endures cutthroat reductions in reality. Calls to fill meeting rooms serve as invisible whips that drive employees onward, while emotions beyond performance metrics are deemed unnecessary. Celebrated when needed, discarded under euphemisms like “restructuring,” it is the ironic stage prop that turns human beings into statistics.