The original article by Juliet Samuel is in The Telegraph but is behind a paywall. This video captures the essence of her article (I think).
In my limited experience HR seems structured to protect the employer from lawsuits; implement the appropriate seminars so they could stand up in court and say “We tried...” if an employee does or says something stupid to another one.
Woke culture in the workplace is why many sane people have left employment and refuse to return
Indians have infiltrated HR to the extent that they are an internal mafia at a lot of companies.
I work in a small startup technology company. Only about 35 of us. No HR. (This is after 23 years in Corp America of 15,000 - 35,000 people.
It is a breath of fresh air. If there’s a disagreement, we just talk to each other. No HR intervention. No PC rules. No diversity/woke-isim training. It’s soooooo nice.
In the good old days, you had a department called PERSONNEL, which was supposed to handle health insurance, parking, etc., and would solicit for job openings. If a foreman wanted a drill press operator, they would provide the candidates, and the foremen would pick.
Personnel did not interfere with personal questions or look for typos or misspellings on applications, but would concern themselves with providing qualified candidates.
Then along came Human Resources, which concerned themselves with whether or not there were typos or wrinkles on the submitted resumes, and then would put those offending resumes in the garbage. Usually the people going through the submitted resumes were recent college grads who didn’t know a drill press from a turret lathe.
So, by the time the foreman got a few resumes, only God knew how many qualified candidates were dismissed because of misspellings or poor grammar.
I could go on and on with what damage was done to the hiring process with the busy-bodies and nosey HR’ers. I could go on.
I had a friend who — with his family — defected from the Soviet Union in the early ‘80s. He was a teenager at the time, just out of school. He told me stories of how the KGB staffed company’s HR departments for the purpose of keeping watch on the Russian people.
Sounds like we’re headed there ourselves…
Eliminate ALL HR departments.
Any paperwork shuffling that they do could be handled by a secretary.
I think the purpose of the HR director in public companies is to be able to point to a fat black lady in a leadership position to “prove” diversity. They pick HR because they think it has the least potential to harm the company. What they don’t realize is this fat black lady takes the company in a woke direction, slowly destroying it. Soon you can’t hire anybody because HR slow-walks any applicant that doesn’t fit their woke agenda.
This could have been written TWENTY years ago. Part of why so many jobs go unfilled while there is still so much unemployment is that HR isn’t the slightest bit concerned with attracting employers and making it easy to apply and be accepted.
Affirmative Action was a battle plan.
I got in trouble with our HR lady earlier in the year when i told her that her job was a farce, and that she didn’t actually do anything of importance, just obstruction.
Called her out in front of the entire management group so there was no ambiguity as to what I said.
Still here for know, Ill leave when I want to, and that time is getting closer and closer.
HR departments are spin offs of Rush Limbaughs “undeniable truths of life” #24 to be exact.
I left HR in the early 1990s...last employment in hi tech...previous a Cat dealership (Alaska pipeline time) ...in the 90s HR became an arm of the government and I hated it. When it was working to HELP managers...it was fun and productive.
My old company recently outsourced the HR dept to a 3rd party.