{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The WorkOps Podcast","title":"What makes AI actually stick at a 750-person company","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1729,"description":"Summary\nOn The WorkOps Podcast, Jean Parchewsky, VP of People Operations at Vendasta, makes a case most AI conversations miss: whether AI takes hold in your company is decided at the hiring table, not in the tooling budget. She traces it back to a training binder that optimized for terminations over hiring, the \"hire slow, fire fast\" principle she built in response, and the behavior-first \"ideal employee profile\" her team uses today. Then she shows how that same hiring discipline is what made AI adoption stick, through a citizen developer program, a searchable build board, and a culture where sharing your failures out loud is the norm. Essential listening for any People leader who has been asked to \"roll out AI.\"\n\nChapters\n00:00 Why Jean never planned a career in HR\n03:50 The binder that optimized for firing, not hiring\n06:00 Hire slow, fire fast\n07:30 The bar raiser: never interview hungry\n11:00 The ideal employee profile: hiring for behavior\n13:20 Why AI adoption is a culture problem\n14:10 Citizen developers and the build board\n18:30 Putting AI enablement in People Ops, not IT\n23:00 Pepper and the rise of AI \"employees\"\n26:00 One piece of advice: just jump in\n\nTakeaways\n- Optimizing HR for legal risk instead of the team can quietly cost you your best people.\n- Hire slow and fire fast: spend your effort choosing the right person, and be honest quickly when it isn't working.\n- Hiring for behaviors rather than skills builds the culture everything else depends on.\n- Stalled AI adoption is usually a culture problem, not a tool problem.\n- AI enablement belongs close to the work, in People Ops, where it becomes workflow change instead of better emails.\n\nConnect with the Guest\nJean Parchewsky LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-parchewsky/\nCompany Website: https://www.vendasta.com/\n\nSponsor\nThis episode is brought to you by Kinfolk, the AI service desk built for HR.\nSee more at kinfolkhq.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Eh8J8csrLvAf-gfZx2fx-hND9gquazmC6b15qkZyyGA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMWNj/OTM3ZjEzMWFkMzQw/NjcwMzQyYTI4MTY3/MGRhMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}