What do people in HR do all day?

[Neuromancer]

Gossip

This.

 

[Roger king]

They help to run the business effectively and limit the liabilities legal wise

 

[KFBF]

aint the interview section on behalf of department heads?

I ask cause ive interviewed A LOT this past year but rarely had an HR person as a first interview

Depends on the company obviously and whether it's private vs public. But in some circumstances HR is likely responsible for everything leading up to the actual interview and everything after (paperwork, background check, onboarding in some cases, etc.)

 

[The Pledge]

Write crazy job descriptions asking for 10 years of experience for a technology thats only been around for 5 years

This one touched my soul

 

[chineebai]

i work a lot with HR and the amount of bullshyt they gotta deal with is kind of crazy. For example, dealing with immigration and visas and highly emotional people, dealing with a lot of old people who are either too lazy to check things on their own or dont know how to, dealing with crazy ass employees and a lot of mental issues, firing people, laying people off, business planning on salary and team size, how to make things more equitable and fair like salary bands, training and onboarding, etc

It's really truly a lot of work for HR, I've come to respect them a lot more as I've worked more with them.

 

[PrnzHakeem]

@PrnzHakeem

We HR folks don't do anything.

I was at Twitter making $350K/yr doing nothing obviously.

IDK what kinda companies y'all work for, but you should be able to tell difference between workplace w effective HR and ineffective HR. Maybe some of y'all work at a mfg plant or warehouse so the only HR you see is a rep.

I work for tech companies so HR role is (forced to be) more strategic rather than just being a paper pusher

 

[Black Magisterialness]

We HR folks don't do anything.

I was at Twitter making $350K/yr doing nothing obviously.

IDK what kinda companies y'all work for, but you should be able to tell difference between workplace w effective HR and ineffective HR. Maybe some of y'all work at a mfg plant or warehouse so the only HR you see is a rep.

I work for tech companies so HR role is (forced to be) more strategic rather than just being a paper pusher

Exactly. I offices I been in HR works hand in hand with the office manager and plans events, team building workshops and all that stuff. Not to mention before DEI was a thing good hiring policy in terms of diversity usually fell into the lap of HR.
The job can be really involved if you want it to be.


But yeah if you're just working on the line for Ford/GM then yeah, HR is there to make sure you don't sue because you dropped a dashboard on your foot and lost a toe.

 

[Blankthawtz]

Ignore my emails when I'm trying to terminate a problem employee.....

 

[TEH]

Apparently shyt post on the Coli

I see you Coli HRehs

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

- Write crazy job descriptions asking for 10 years of experience for a technology thats only been around for 5 years
- Post jobs that ask for sr level skills but pay jr level salary
- Require bachelor's and masters degrees to weed people out but in reality you couldve did this job in the 10th grade

- Protect the company from workers they screwed over.

Edit: Ok, I'm being cynical