In Strugatski brothers novel "Monday Begins on Saturday" (first published in 1964) employees substituted their dumb clones for themselves to perform various mi

In Strugatski brothers novel "Monday Begins on Saturday" (first published in 1964) employees substituted their dumb clones for themselves to perform various mind numbing low-intelligence work related activities which their employment at a typical research institution of USSR was full of. And the large West corporations do have a lot of that old socialism feel to them :)