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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 one of the hardest parts of working in HR is caring deeply about people while also having to represent business decisions that aren’t always easy or popular. That tension can be exhausting over time.The constant change over the past few years hasn’t helped either. Trying to keep others feeling stable and informed while you’re also processing uncertainty yourself is not simple.What’s helped me personally is setting clearer boundaries and accepting that I can’t fix everything for everyone. Still a work in progress though.

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  • I think one of the hardest parts of working in HR is caring deeply about people while also having to represent business decisions that aren’t always easy or popular. That tension can be exhausting over time.The constant change over the past few years hasn’t helped either. Trying to keep others feeling stable and informed while you’re also processing uncertainty yourself is not simple.What’s helped me personally is setting clearer boundaries and accepting that I can’t fix everything for everyone. Still a work in progress though.

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