Amplify Digest: Boy, Bye

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Welcome to the Amplify Digest. Every week, I break down five articles in five minutes; discussing the top people news, stories, and resources that are worth your time. Scroll down for links to the articles covered in the video (and more), Amplify Academy updates, and recent Redefining HR podcasts.

This week’s digest explores Spotify’s “Scout” program, Dropbox’s hybrid success, boy bosses of silicon valley, visualizing layoffs, workplace surveillance, the Amplify Academy Foxtrot Cohort Guest instructors, and more.

🔦 HR opportunity spotlight: Pursuit, VP People & Culture (Denver, CO)

In this role, you’ll lead all human resource business planning activities, including the creation and development of innovative compensation strategies, seasonal and year-round recruitment, training and onboarding, the creation of a strong guest-focused hospitality culture, reporting, analysis of our people & culture requirements, planning, budgeting, ongoing weekly management of the division’s People and Culture performance, weekly reporting of hiring, training, performance management and evolving business trends in a fast-paced and growing enterprise.

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Articles discussed in this week's Digest (and more)

1. Introducing the Amplify Academy Foxtrot Cohort Guest Instructors

2. Introducing Scout: Sports-Inspired Talent Search (Spotify HR Blog)

3. Dropbox Tossed Out the Workplace Rulebook. Here’s How That’s Working (Time)

4. The Boy Bosses of Silicon Valley Are on Their Way Out (The New York Times)

5. Visualizing Major Layoffs At U.S. Corporations (Visual Capitalist)

6. The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score (The New York Times)

7. The Great Realignment: What’s Next for HR (People First Club)

8. Why big-tech employees are flocking to anonymous professional network Blind (Work Life)

9. GitLab CEO: ‘Remote work is just work’ (Fortune)

10. The Great Tech Salary Crash (FAANG FIRE)

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Announcing Foxtrot Cohort Guest Instructors

This week I unveiled the guest instructors for the upcoming Foxtrot Cohort (Aug 31 - Sept 30)! You can see them below and learn more in this blog post.

• Anna Binder - Asana, Head of People

• Colleen McCreary - Credit Karma - Chief People, Places, & Publicity Officer

• Lynne Oldham - Stach, Chief People Officer

• AJ Thomas - X, The Moonshot Factory - Chaos Pilot, People & Places

About the Amplify Academy below

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Redefining HR Podcast 🎧

Redefining HR is back! Listen to the latest, and recent, episodes below.

1. Building Work Relationships With Rapid7 Chief People Officer Christina Luconi

2. Managing Hybrid Workforces With Envoy Chief People Officer Annette Reavis

3. The Intersection of Emotions and Work with Humu Head of Communications and Content Liz Fosslien