The Paper Finally Exposes What Happened To Dunder Mifflin

If you have spent the last decade wondering what happened to Dunder Mifflin after The Office wrapped, Peacock just answered you. The Paper, Greg Daniels new series set in the same universe, finally spells out the fate of Scrantons most famous paper company — and it is not a simple shutdown story.

First stop back in Scranton: the office is gone

The Paper opens with a time jump: the documentary crew that started filming in Scranton in 2005 shows up again 20 years later. Only this time, the cameras do not find Dunder Mifflin at the Scranton Business Park. The old space belongs to a place called One and Done Laser. That is the first clue things have changed.

Enter a familiar face. Robert R. Shafer is back as Bob Vance of Vance Refrigeration, and he lays it out with typical Bob bluntness:

"Dunder Mifflin? Yeah, they've been gone for a while."

He also mentions he is still in touch with his wife Phyllis and with Stanley, because of course he is.

So, did Dunder Mifflin actually shut down?

Not exactly. In a nice bit of inside baseball, the show flashes Scranton Chamber of Commerce records that say Dunder Mifflin was purchased in 2019 by a Toledo-based company called Enervate. Enervate is a paper-products parent company that covers a lot of ground: office supplies, janitorial goods, and even local newspapers.

Translation: the Scranton branch is gone, but the brand itself did not die.

Where the company lives now

Greg Daniels clears it up on-screen and in interviews. Oscar Martinez (played by Oscar Nunez) now works at Enervate’s offices in Toledo, and you can still spot boxes of Dunder Mifflin paper in the show. Daniels’ nutshell version:

"It's not that it's no more. It's just part of this larger company called Enervate now."

What The Paper is actually about

This is not a stealth reboot of The Office, and Daniels is not shy about that. The Paper follows Enervate’s push to resurrect a struggling local newspaper, with scrappy newsroom energy instead of sales-floor hijinks. It sprinkles in callbacks — Bob Vance popping up, Oscar working in Toledo, some brand cameos — but it stays its own thing.

"This show has to live or die on its own merits."

Big takeaways

• The Scranton office is gone; the old space is now One and Done Laser.
• Dunder Mifflin was acquired in 2019 by Toledo-based Enervate, which deals in everything from office and janitorial paper to local newspapers.
• The brand survives under Enervate: Oscar works at the Toledo office, and Dunder Mifflin paper still shows up on-screen. The Paper nods to The Office without turning into a full reboot.