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How are you all doing?

Steve Bridger

The tweet below prompted me to ask this question. You are so busy. You may be feeling undervalued.  

It has been two years since Samantha asked this question, which generated a wonderfully open and supportive conversation days before the first lockdown.

 Are any other HR people feeling a bit lonely in all this :( 

So much has happened since then and while in some ways the pandemic accelerated a pre-exisiting direction of travel with regards remote working and technology, so much was new - not least 'furlough', which we were all talking about here. But there have also been deep structural changes and challenges - for example, in recruitment and retention. Now many of you are considering how you can support employees through the cost-of-living crisis. 

Amid all this, we need to look after ourselves and support one another - our peers. 

So... how are you doing?

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  • Thanks for asking the question, Steve. If I'm honest, I'm feeling quite flat. The pandemic is still having a massive impact on our organisation - income is reduced as our retail sites still aren't back to full capacity, councils have less money to spend on the services we deliver and we've lost a lot of regular volunteers who are the mainstay of our organisation. Couple that with struggling to recruit staff and deal with the cost of living crisis and I just feel like the stress never ends. The world has changed and is still changing massively and it still feels like there's not time to stop and catch my breath. I've been running on adrenaline so long, I've forgotten what 'normal' feels like.

    Hopefully some of you out there in HR world are starting to feel better about everything and can share the feeling that we will get through all this!
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  • Thanks for asking the question, Steve. If I'm honest, I'm feeling quite flat. The pandemic is still having a massive impact on our organisation - income is reduced as our retail sites still aren't back to full capacity, councils have less money to spend on the services we deliver and we've lost a lot of regular volunteers who are the mainstay of our organisation. Couple that with struggling to recruit staff and deal with the cost of living crisis and I just feel like the stress never ends. The world has changed and is still changing massively and it still feels like there's not time to stop and catch my breath. I've been running on adrenaline so long, I've forgotten what 'normal' feels like.

    Hopefully some of you out there in HR world are starting to feel better about everything and can share the feeling that we will get through all this!
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  • in reply to Jacqueline
    I feel very similar Jacqueline, particularly about struggling to recruit staff. We actually profited from the lockdowns in terms of business as we are a training company and suddenly everyone wanted to do courses while on furlough, which is fantastic, but now our workforce are over stretched and trying to recruit into assessor roles is proving extremely difficult.
    I also started in this job (my first ever HR position) a week before the 1st national lockdown in March 2020 and was plunged straight into working from home trying to sort out the culture of employees who have never had a HR department and don't understand what I do/managers trying to get me to do all their "dirty work".
    I think exhausted sums it up.