If you’re ever in need of some good news, no-brainer stimulation as I have been a lot in the past few years, watch the Emmy award-winning Undercover Boss. You’ll find it on CBS and Hulu.
The concept is clever and the layers of entertainment are many. Seeing how companies operate from an inside, hidden-camera perspective, how execs deal with and participate in the actual work done by their many employees, hearing the real-people stories of the lives of the employees and their families, and then watching the show culminate with the big reveal, is about as entertaining as it comes. This is the only reality TV show I watch. And I have watched more than one episode in a row.
Here’s how Google describes the show.
“High-level corporate execs leave the comfort of their offices and secretly take low-level jobs within their companies to find out how things really work and what their employees truly think of them. This Emmy-winning reality series utilizes hidden cameras to provide an authentic view of executives’Â journeys as they are immersed in the day-to-day operations of their organizations. In the process of this undercover mission, they learn of the perceptions about their companies, the spirit of their work forces and — maybe — something about themselves as well.”
