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Amplify Digest: Show We The Money

This week’s digest explores Executive’s pre-pandemic office nostalgia, RTW done right, survival-mode decisions, pay transparency at scale, how to make a startup career page, Culture Amp’s Leadership from the Heart Ukraine find-raiser, and an update on the Amplify Academy.

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Amplify Digest: Battling Burnout

This week’s digest explores FirstRound's piece on battling burnout, hiring for skills, tech layoffs, the cost of retention is worth it, and the season finale of the Redefining HR podcast with Microsoft Chief People Officer Kathleen Hogan.

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Amplify Digest: Show Me The Metrics

This week’s digest explores Remote’s open-source DEIB framework, Microsoft’s pay increases, Visier’s people metrics that matter to your c-suite, YCombinator’s economic downturn memo, and more.

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Amplify Digest: Bursting Bubbles

This week’s digest explores supporting Black employees, tech bubble bursting, Uber's cost-cutting, Netflix's vision tweak, pragmatic planning in HR operations, and more.

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Amplify Digest: Space & Grace

This week’s digest explores the draft opinion to overturn Roe v Wade, a CEO's response, reports from KPMG and Deloitte, Airbnb's new remote policy, and much more.

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Amplify Digest: Elongated Uncertainty

This week’s digest explores Elon’s Twitter takeover, people leader skills for the new world of work, why belonging trumps work location, radical intentionality of hybrid, the best U.S. job markets that might surprise you, and much more.

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Amplify Digest: High on Remote

This week’s digest explores remote jobs overtaking corporate jobs on LinkedIn, how the boom in HR tech investment might reshape HR, how to build an anti-racist company, and much more.

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Amplify Digest: Getting High(brid)

This week’s digest is episode explores the Amplify Accelerator Echo Cohort guest instructors, hybrid work models, leading distributed teams, Bain’s take on the working future, and more.

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Introducing the Echo Cohort Guest Instructors

I'm thrilled to announce the next group of world-class guest instructors who will be joining us for the Delta Cohort. They'll be sharing their expertise via a presentation and answering all of the students’ questions in a live AMA during the course.

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Amplify Digest: Tomorrow, Today

This week’s digest is episode explores flexible work plans from Lyft, Dashlane’s guide to hybrid work, numbers behind the great resignation in tech, and more.

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Amplify Digest: Interview the Interviewer

This week’s digest explores Spotify’s career site, tips for talent leader interviewing, McKinsey’s Brave New Business World, David Green’s people analytics newsletter, hybrid tech, and much more.

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Amplify Digest: Flex Appeal

This week’s digest explores the Amplify Accelerator Echo Cohort flash sale, hybrid studies, what it means to be “flexible”, optimal organizational structures, and much more.

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Amplify Accelerator Echo Cohort Flash Sale (one week only)

The Amplify Accelerator Cohorts are immersive learning programs unlike anything you’ve experienced. Become a more confident people leader, armed with a new global peer community and a toolkit full of actionable advice, resources, templates, and more.

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Amplify Digest: Hire Within (February 9, 2022)

This week’s digest explores the 100-year history of HR, the pandemic’s silver lining on internal mobility, Greenhouse’s 2022 Candidate Experience Report, Coda’s Layoff List template, and much more.

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