Human Resources: A Tor Original
Apr 2025 · Tor Books
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Set years before Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s all-too plausible short story navigates a world where humans are increasingly redundant.
“Holring and Baselard value your contribution to our team”
As one of the last non-robot employees at Holring and Baselard, Tim Stock retains a vital role in the human resources department: firing the multinational conglomerate’s remaining human workers.
But the soul-crushing task eats away at Tim. As he watches the company replace his human colleagues with cheaper labor, Tim starts to question his own job security. After all, what use could robots possibly have for an HR department?
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
“Holring and Baselard value your contribution to our team”
As one of the last non-robot employees at Holring and Baselard, Tim Stock retains a vital role in the human resources department: firing the multinational conglomerate’s remaining human workers.
But the soul-crushing task eats away at Tim. As he watches the company replace his human colleagues with cheaper labor, Tim starts to question his own job security. After all, what use could robots possibly have for an HR department?
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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4.3
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Kristofer Keane
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April 30, 2025
A fun little short story that provokes thoughts of the near future and that does add to the world built in Service Model. Going in though be aware that this is a very short story - of the 32 pages in the description the story itself makes up only 12.
Russell Dovey
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May 2, 2025
Excellent punchline.
About the author
Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He's also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and table-top games.
Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. Children of Time won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, while And Put Away Childish Things won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction.
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