Vivian Marsh

Author

Vivian Marsh

A former corporate insider turned novelist, writing about power, fairness, and automation from inside the rooms where those decisions get made.

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Essays

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August 2026

Who Do You Call When the System Says No?

Companies rarely build the systems that now shape an employee’s working life. They buy them, then put a human face in front of the outcome. On the gap between an automated decision and the person left to explain it.

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August 2026

The Meeting Where the Number Became a Person

Every headcount decision starts as a shape on a slide. Somewhere later, it gets a name attached to it. On the exact moment a number turns back into a person, and who is responsible for making sure that still happens.

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Forthcoming

The Optimization

A corporate techno-thriller about the systems that now sit between a company and the people it employs, and the people still expected to answer for what those systems decide. Vivian is already at work on her next book.

Vivian Marsh

About

Nearly two decades inside the room

Vivian Marsh spent close to twenty years inside the HR function of large corporations, watching from the inside how the decisions that reduce a person to a line on a spreadsheet actually get made.

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