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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 think HR is making me miserable. My background in HR was that I worked in the private sector in HR (or personnel as it was then) Admin and then took a break, funded my own Masters and subsequently worked in HR roles in the public sector. I took a career break to have kids and returned approx 5 years ago to work in an SME - totally out of my comfort zone but I enjoyed setting up systems and being the go-to expert on HR. Now I'm miserable and can't decide whether it's the lack of progression, the monotonous tasks, or whether HR just isn't for me and I should completely rethink what I want to do as a job. I feel like I'm undervalued both in terms of financial reward but also in terms of my expertise/knowledge. Wondering if HR is worth persevering with or if a whole new approach would help. I always remember when doing my Masters that one of the lecturers said you didn't need to be a 'people person' to work in HR as most of HR work is really negative and I can't help but agree at this point in time!
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  • I think HR is making me miserable. My background in HR was that I worked in the private sector in HR (or personnel as it was then) Admin and then took a break, funded my own Masters and subsequently worked in HR roles in the public sector. I took a career break to have kids and returned approx 5 years ago to work in an SME - totally out of my comfort zone but I enjoyed setting up systems and being the go-to expert on HR. Now I'm miserable and can't decide whether it's the lack of progression, the monotonous tasks, or whether HR just isn't for me and I should completely rethink what I want to do as a job. I feel like I'm undervalued both in terms of financial reward but also in terms of my expertise/knowledge. Wondering if HR is worth persevering with or if a whole new approach would help. I always remember when doing my Masters that one of the lecturers said you didn't need to be a 'people person' to work in HR as most of HR work is really negative and I can't help but agree at this point in time!
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