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Employment Is Dead
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Employment Is Dead

by Deborah Perry Piscione, Josh Drean
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 42m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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CHAPTER 12

People Operations in the New World of Work

Tracie Sponenberg was a unique kid; she always knew from an early age that she wanted to be in human resources. Her aunt worked in a field called “personnel,” and she was fascinated. The creation of policies. Enforcing rules. Hiring people. Firing people. After earning a degree in industrial-organizational psychology and entering the workforce, she quickly became quite proficient at her job, which haunted her years later. Sponenberg recalled, “I remember distinctly the first time I fired someone. I was easily able to disconnect and end that person’s career without emotion. Many terminations later, my boss told me, ‘You are really good at that. And I’m not sure that’s a good thing.’” It earned ...

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ISBN: 9781647826437