Severance Introduces Wintertide, a Program Shaping Lumon’s Future Managers

Season 2 reveals Wintertide as a training initiative for young recruits like Miss Huang, raising ethical questions about Lumon's practices.

Wintertide is revealed as a specialized educational program designed to prepare children for management roles in Lumon Industries' severed floors.
Miss Huang, a teenage character in Severance, is part of Wintertide, working as an intern under Milchick’s supervision to prove her suitability for the program.
The program appears to indoctrinate participants with Lumon’s ideology, normalizing practices like the dehumanization of severed workers from an early age.
Wintertide builds on Lumon’s history of using institutions like the Myrtle Eagan School to shape loyal, ideologically aligned employees.
The existence of Wintertide suggests a larger, systemic effort by Lumon to secure a future workforce conditioned to uphold its controversial operations.