Author
A former corporate insider turned novelist, writing about power, fairness, and automation from inside the rooms where those decisions get made.
From the desk
August 2026
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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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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About
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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