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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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  • HR is not making me miserable, some of the tasks we have to do are not nice! But I welcome challenges and thrive on this role being so difficult with each day different. I am concerned about smaller businesses with all the employment law changes coming up and what the future holds for HR.

    I think as HR professionals we need to push back a bit harder at some of the management decisions, we are all guilty of 'yes okay' and being scapegoated - we should be collectively taking a stand saying this is how we should do things, if you want to go against expert advice then that is on you. At the end of the day, we are paid to do our job with our expert knowledge. I still feel HR gets pushed back and not taken as seriously as other departments in many businesses.

    I am lucky in my current role, but have worked in environments which do not take it seriously and honestly, I could not go back to that way of working.
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  • HR is not making me miserable, some of the tasks we have to do are not nice! But I welcome challenges and thrive on this role being so difficult with each day different. I am concerned about smaller businesses with all the employment law changes coming up and what the future holds for HR.

    I think as HR professionals we need to push back a bit harder at some of the management decisions, we are all guilty of 'yes okay' and being scapegoated - we should be collectively taking a stand saying this is how we should do things, if you want to go against expert advice then that is on you. At the end of the day, we are paid to do our job with our expert knowledge. I still feel HR gets pushed back and not taken as seriously as other departments in many businesses.

    I am lucky in my current role, but have worked in environments which do not take it seriously and honestly, I could not go back to that way of working.
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