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Is your HR job making you miserable?

Steve Bridger

Last month we were discussing What key challenges are you currently facing in your role? 

One of you mentioned "the impossibility of balancing different priorities, when you have a genuine desire to do the right thing by the people you work with. I've always chosen to work in a relatively small organisation, so I'm close to the people whose jobs I support. For the first time, I'm thinking that I'd like a bit of distance!" (Which, incidentally, reminds me of this thread from the archive...)
Should HR have employees as Facebook 'Friends'?

Another community member said, "...with so much change in the business, it's so difficult to keep everyone feeling safe and secure, informed to the right level."

I know that so many of you find this Community a comfortable space to share your highs and lows with your peers, but it's almost two years to the day that I asked How are you all doing? after the worst of the pandemic.

We have been talking about this NYT article at CIPD this week... which has prompted me to ask that question again: how are you all doing?

So, Human Resources Is Making You Miserable?

HR managers... say that since the pandemic, the job has become an exasperating ordeal. “People hate us,” one said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/03/business/human-resources-professionals-workplace.html

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  • I'm feeling a little apprehensive about the forthcoming employment law changes. I think some of the proposed measures are idealistic, and I've been worrying about the actual application of these measures and unintended negative consequences. Having said that, I do think it's an exciting time to be in HR, I'm particularly enjoying the new technologies we can utilise.
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     One of the advantages of a longish career in HR Management is that to a certain extent you have seen it all before. Nothing we are seeing is really that new (with exception of "banning" zero hours contracts and that is being tonned down) and most other things have been tried in one form or another in the past. Some HR people will have to learn some new skills I am sure, but (and I don't mean this in a political sense) the pendulum has probably swung too far one way and is due a correction for a while

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  • in reply to Rosie

     One of the advantages of a longish career in HR Management is that to a certain extent you have seen it all before. Nothing we are seeing is really that new (with exception of "banning" zero hours contracts and that is being tonned down) and most other things have been tried in one form or another in the past. Some HR people will have to learn some new skills I am sure, but (and I don't mean this in a political sense) the pendulum has probably swung too far one way and is due a correction for a while

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