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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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  • Is my job at times super frustrating? Yes, absolutely. Whether that is strained budgets, unrealistic expectations, CEOs dismissing advice in favour of bonkers decisions (to you at least!) - all of these make life harder. It's also kind of par for the course; it forces you to be creative with budgets, or to think of better comms to manage expectations or to be more pragmatic. Things are rarely ideal but that's part of the challenge which I personally find really interesting: what can you do with what you've got?

    Where HR is associated with the negative (redundancies, pay freezes) - yes, sometimes you will be. But you can also do what's in your control to make sure those delivering those messages are doing so transparently and in a human way. And you have to be ok with the fact that you'll have to say no to people and that you can't please everyone.

    If your job constantly makes you miserable, then you have the same option as all the other employees and can make a change! For me, it's definitely challenging, but it can also be immensely satisfying and rewarding.
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  • Is my job at times super frustrating? Yes, absolutely. Whether that is strained budgets, unrealistic expectations, CEOs dismissing advice in favour of bonkers decisions (to you at least!) - all of these make life harder. It's also kind of par for the course; it forces you to be creative with budgets, or to think of better comms to manage expectations or to be more pragmatic. Things are rarely ideal but that's part of the challenge which I personally find really interesting: what can you do with what you've got?

    Where HR is associated with the negative (redundancies, pay freezes) - yes, sometimes you will be. But you can also do what's in your control to make sure those delivering those messages are doing so transparently and in a human way. And you have to be ok with the fact that you'll have to say no to people and that you can't please everyone.

    If your job constantly makes you miserable, then you have the same option as all the other employees and can make a change! For me, it's definitely challenging, but it can also be immensely satisfying and rewarding.
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