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[The Office] Who funded 10 years of production for the documentary?

40 hours a week for 10 years. That's not even counting after hours stuff (parties and Dundies and etc). Would require multiple people just for filming. Not even counting editing and marketing and what not after that was complete.

Who would make an investment like that? How could they ever make that money back with a documentary?
gpt
At first, it was going to be a fairly niche documentary about office working.

Once they realized the sheer amount of drama and wacky shenanigans in this office, then they realized they could make a lot of money from it on that, and thus got increased funding.

You'll notice near the end, they stop even the pretense of doing a documentary on paper work and just straight up start filming the love triangles and chaos and so forth.

People are, in universe, funding a reality show. That's what they're getting their money back from.