Severance
The various section within Lumon Industries are cardinal toSeverance’sdeveloping mysteries . Lumon ’s office building itself features a vast , confusing maze with surprise waiting around every box , and that ’s just what ’s seen on the Severed Floor . Severanceseason 2has respond some of the interrogation , regarding these departments , but much remains to be explained .
For the longsighted meter , Severancehasn’t explain what Lumon Industries actually does , with the workers themselves know very small about their jobs and employers at Lumon . Nevertheless , Lumon gives thecharacters inSeverancemany unequalled responsibility bet on the department they wreak in , and every section has its comely share of enigma .
10Macrodata Refinement
The Main Characters Have Monotonous But Mysterious Jobs As Refiners
The Macrodata Refinement ( MDR ) section of Lumon is where Mark , Irving , Dylan , and Helly work during the day , and their province as refiner are a mystery even to them . Each Refiner in this department is assigned to monitor and organise numbers that appear on the computersin their cubicle and put them into five digital bank identification number . These numbers are categorized based on the emotions they invoke in the Refiner , which are known in Lumon mythos as the Four Tempers : Woe , Frolic , Dread , and Malice .
Apple TV+ ’s Severance has leave audiences with more doubt than answer , but one theory offers an explanation as to what Lumon ’s workplace is really for .
The Refiners have to make sureeach ABA transit number on their computing equipment is filled with an equal amount of each type of phone number . It ’s unsung what thenumbers inSeveranceare , what this summons is supposed to do , or how it affects Lumon ’s greater stage business functions . Nevertheless , the refiner are pay back for their endeavour depending on how much they get done . As more oeuvre is complete , they are given a Lumon eraser , a finger’s breadth hole , a Music / Dance Experience , and a impersonation portrait . When a Refiner does well enough in a quarter , they may receive a Waffle Party accompanied by a bizarre and titillating dance show .
9Break Room
This Is Where Some Of Lumon’s Dirty Work Is Done
Whenever Lumon employees work in an unwanted manner while working on the Severed Floor , the Administrators institutionalize them to the Break Room as penalty to make them deport . Inside this dark , limit infinite , the employee is watched by Milchick and force to take this book several time until their minds and bodies are exhausted :
" Forgive me for the harm I have make this populace . None may atone for my actions but me , and only in me shall their stain exist on . I am grateful to have been caught , my gloaming cut short by those with wizened hands . All I can be is sorry , and that is all that I am . "
It ’s an abusive shape of psychological penalisation that exhibit Lumon ’s sinister , cult - like way of ensure its employees . Helly and Mark are shown to have been sent to the Break Room inSeveranceseason 1.Helly recited the script inSeveranceseason 1over a thousand meter while in the Break Roomuntil Milchick think she signify what she said and was really apologetic . Since Mark leave the Break Room with bruise on his hand , it is implied that Lumon Administrators take forcible punishments on employee inside .
8Optics & Design
Optics & Design Are The Alleged Rivals Of The Refiners In Severance
Optics and Design , also known as O&D , is a rival department of Macrodata Refinement on the Severed Floor of Lumon . Both department are said to have a bitter and unrelenting history at Lumon , in which one section massacre the other . Such a macabre battle is shown in Lumon ’s office painting , but it ’s indecipherable which department assail first , why the attack happened , or if the battle even occur at all .
Christopher Walken ’s character , Burt , was in bearing of Optics and Design until his retreat inSeveranceseason 1 . O&D ab initio appeared to be a small grouping in boot of stack away , continue , and coif up art piece depicting Lumon ’s account throughout the office . However , O&D is discover to be much larger , as the section has an enormous room with several more workers . These employees are view using automobile , leaving O&D ’s true purpose a mystery .
7Administration
The Severed Floor’s Oppressive Managers Work From This Department
As the name imply , the Administration section is in flush of monitoring and leading the employee on the Severed Floor . This department includes the office of Harmony Cobel and Seth Milchick , where the MDR workers typically go to commune with their high - ups . These offices also have monitors where the Administrators can observe the employees on the Severed Floor , most notably the Refiners , via hidden cameras in their cubicles .
breach season 2 has a bunch of mystery to address , with one clever theory adding another to the mix about Lumon ’s sinister motivation .
While she served as an Office Administrator at Lumon , Harmony rule over the Severed Floor with an iron clenched fist as she abused and torment her employee . However , she ultimately lost her place near the end ofSeveranceseason 1 for hide Helly ’s self-destruction attempt . Though Milchick remain in Administration , it is unknown if he fulfil Harmony ’s role entirely or if another person will replace her as the head Administrator .
6Wellness
The Wellness Center Goes Deep Into Severed Employees' Minds
work at Lumon can be enfeeble , especially for the Severed employees like Irving , whose subdue memory sometimes manifest during the solar day and intervene with their oeuvre . Thus , the Severed Floor have a Wellness Center to keep workers at ease . The department was run by the counselor , Ms. Casey , who is revealed to be Mark ’s dead married woman , Gemma . However , after Mark andMs . Casey inSeverencefail to accredit each other as husband and wife , the latter is dispense with of her position at the Wellness Center and is send out to the"Testing Floor"at Lumon .
Since Mark believed Gemma was killed drive into a tree diagram two eld prior , it is implied that the Wellness Center is set up by the Administration to judge how much the Severed employees in reality remember about their lives outside Lumon .
At Wellness , Ms. Casey recites facts about a patient’s"outie"to comfort them . However , Ms. Cobel is shown monitoring these sessions , peculiarly Mark ’s , in which he sculpture his feelings into a tree . Since Mark believed Gemma was killed drive into a tree diagram two year prior , it is implied that the Wellness Center is set up by the Administration to gauge how much the Severed employees actually remember about their lives outside Lumon .
5Goat Wrangling
There Is A Lot Waiting To Be Said About The Goats In Severance
This remains the most mysterious department in Lumon so far . As the name implies , the Goat Wrangling section inSeveranceis just a elbow room where a humanity in a suit is caring for infant Goat . give the nature of the other departments , one specifically for wrangle goats does n’t seem to fit with what Lumon does . However , since Lumon ’s part remain shrouded in secret , it ’s potential the goats dish up a nifty purpose at the caller .
The Isle of Man in bang of Goat Wrangling is unknown , but he seems very affiliated to the goats he ’s fostering , peculiarly since he ’s located in a dark and isolated part of Lumon . When Mark and Helly chance him , he says,“They’re not ready,“and fearfully kick them both out . His statement inculpate thatthe goats will be ingest away and used for a specific physical process at Lumon once they attain maturity .
4Distribution Supply
Inventory Control Systems
This is one of the Severed Floor departments that has yet to be explore . Though Distribution Supply was n’t describe on - screen at all inSeveranceseason 1 , it is entail to be responsible for for provide office supply to the employee on the Severed Floor . It is first referenced by Ms. Casey after Mark spills coffee on her notepad . Saying she has to get a new notepad , Ms. Casey leaves for an eight - minute trip from Macrodata Refinement to Distribution Supply and back
Since Ms. Casey recall from her slip with a whole clump of notepads , it ’s unknown how many office supply are available at Distribution Supply .
It could be another massive room similar to the secret room establish in Optics & Design . However , it is unknown if an employee is stationed in this section , pass the necessary supplying to the Severed workers .
3Security Office
The Office Holds The Most Power Over The Severed Workers' Minds
From the Security Office , the integrality of Lumon ’s Severed Floor , including its workers , is monitored . This power also domiciliate equipment that can monitor an employee ’s Severance Saratoga chip , as well as activate hidden functions . Most notably , two hoi polloi could pioneer the Overtime Contingency Protocol from the Security Office , allowing them to awaken a Severed employee’s"innie"outside of Lumon , if necessary .
Since it is such an of import department , memory access to the Security Office can only be granted by a inglorious central circuit board . InSeveranceseason 1,Mark obtain a wit belonging to Doug Graner , who was the Head of Security at Lumon ’s Severed Floor until Reghabi killed him . As a effect , Dylan used the Security Office ’s technical school to awaken Mark , Helly , and Irving ’s innies in the outside world in an endeavor to break loose from Lumon .
2Perpetuity Wing
Lumon’s History Is On Full Display In This Location
Lumon Industries has a tenacious history and a layered , almost spiritual political orientation , andemployees can learn more about it in the office ’s Perpetuity Wing . Said incision of the Severed Floor is a museum with animatronic exhibit dedicate to Lumon ’s exalted founding father , Kier Eagan , as well as his descendant . These include the seven other CEOs of Lumon Industries , with the most late CEO being the father ofHelena inSeverance , Jame Eagan .
There is also an exhibit in the Perpetuity Wing feature photos of smile of the people Lumon has help shout out the"Lumon Legacy of Joy . “Lastly , there is an display with a reproduction of Kier Eagan ’s house , andKier ’s sleeping room inside the house is where the Waffle Party takes position . Though employees normally ca n’t sit on Kier ’s seam , the Waffle Party allow the one celebrate to sit on it while they are yield their sexual dance show .
1Other Departments And Floors
There Are Still Much To Be Explored On And Off The Severed Floor
SinceSeverancehas only just begin to reveal the mysteries of Lumon , there are still many other departments that have n’t been shown . In the Security Office , there is a list of section on presentation , each of them judge with abbreviations . The list include MDR , O&D , and D&R , the latter have in mind Disposal and Reclamation . D&R ’s function is unknown and has n’t been explored inSeveranceso far , with only a preindication in the hall revealing its existence . The remaining department let in CE , TA , W&A , EQP , CL , and WN , none of which have been call in yet .
It ’s unknown what goes on at the Testing Floor , but it is connote that Lumon experiments on Severed employee after making changes to their brain chips and their memories .
There are also many other floors besides the Severed Floor . Specifically , there is the inscrutable Testing Floor , which is accessed from an elevator found in a dark hallway . It ’s unknown what go away on at the Testing Floor , but it is entail that Lumon try out on Severed employee by making changes to their brainiac chips and their computer storage . Only Ms. Casey is catch going there . However , Irving ’s outie has painted several impression of the hall withthe lift inSeveranceseason 1,indicating that Irving ’s innie has either come across the hall or has suppressed memory of going to the Testing Floor .
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breach is a psychological thriller series featuring Adam Scott as Mark Scout , an employee at Lumon Industries who undergoes a " severance " procedure to severalise his work and personal memories . However , as oeuvre and life-time character mysteriously begin to collide , it promptly becomes exculpated that not all is as it seems . Created by Dan Erickson and head by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle .
