25 Great Workplace Comedies to Stream (That Aren't 'The Office')
There are only so many times you can rewatch The Office (or even The Office). In fact, in the likely event that you aren't a Peacock Premium subscriber, you can't even stream much of the American series at all anymore.
But fear not: As some of us enter our second year of working at home there are still plenty of critic-approved streaming workplace comedies to satisfy any nostalgia you may have for days of toiling in a crowded office surrounded by your coworkers. (Or merely to kill the extra hours you have to spend at home.) Our suggestions for your next workplace comedy binge—including information on where to stream each show—can be found in alphabetical order in the gallery above. Most of these shows are from the past few decades, but at the end of the gallery we have compiled suggestions for some additional classic workplace sitcoms, as well as a few titles that are just getting started. (Shows such as Sports Night and NewsRadio not currently streaming in full on any free or subscription service are excluded.)
26 episodes (2 seasons) streaming at Hulu
The workplace: The headquarters of Veridian Dynamics, a powerful global conglomerate.
Few office-based sitcoms are as funny as this gone-too-soon ABC series from Victor Fresco (whose previous workplace comedy, the even shorter-lived Andy Richter Controls the Universe, is sadly not available to stream) set inside the corporate offices and research lab of a soulless, evil megacorporation (whose products and services can be glimpsed in fake commercials inserted into each episode). The cast is led by Jay Harrington, Andrea Anders, and a never-better Portia de Rossi, and Ted managed to score big laughs (if not big ratings) while both tackling important issues like corporate racial sensitivity policies and embracing silliness (as in a season 2 episode when a typo in a corporate memo requires the entire staff to use offensive language whenever possible).
“I love everything about this show, from star Jay Harrington’s delivery of Ted’s straight-man lines with WASP ramrod posture to the show’s up-front critiques of corporate capitalism.” —Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly