Path-E-Tech Management

Path-E-Tech Management is the company where Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, Alice, Asok, Tina, the Pointy-Haired Boss, Carol, Loud Howard, Catbert, and many others work. It is based on Sun Microsystems, where Scott Adams used to work as an Engineer. Its board of directors tries to lose money and the executives constantly steal money. Its low-level employees are underpaid and work long hours. The company is either based or has offices in a building shown in both the cartoon strips and TV series. Unlike the office building in the cartoon strips seem to be different from the one in the TV series. There are cubicles inside the office building.

The management in the company is horrible and the products are awful. Despite all of this, the company has been successful and made lots of money, becoming a multi-billion dollar company.

It is unnamed in the strip but the TV series reveals its name as Path-E-Tech Management, resulting from a merger between Path-Way Electronics and E-Tech Management.(a play on the word "pathetic"), but when Dogbert acquired it later in the episode, there was a "Dogbert Inc." sign being lifted into place. Dogbert is later mentioned as selling the company for "not quite $100 billion".

Despite apparently not paying well, when the employee's homes such as Dilbert's and Loud Howard's when seen in the television series seem nice. There are four known divisions: enginering, where Dilbert, Wally, Loud Howard, Alice and Asok work, marketing which tends to be a rival of the engineering groups, human resources, whose only known employee is Catbert and shipping.

The company is secretly owned by a crime family. The CEO is Harold Saxon. It is mentioned in Ethics.