The Office is a British mockumentary sitcom, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictitious Wernham Hogg Paper Company. Gervais also stars in the series, playing the central character, David Brent.
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant wrote and directed The Office based on their previous experience of working at Wernham Hogg Paper Company.
The context states that Wernham Hogg is fictitious therefore it would have been impossible for the writers to have worked there in the past.