Are you working in human resources and feeling misunderstood, frustrated or disengaged these days? We're not surprised. In the past four years, HR professionals have encountered a host of challenges, including seismic work shifts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, DEI defunding, the Great Resignation and the rise of "quiet quitting."
The nature of your role often puts you in the middle of senior management lobbing dictates for HR to communicate and enforce and employees on the receiving end who are not pleased. “So, Human Resources Is Making You Miserable,” an article published in The New York Times on August 3, 2024, points out that plenty of employees complain about HR — "the endless flow of memos and forms… many of which have to be filled out, pronto," "new initiatives," "rules about remote work" — as well as assume you are aligned with management and not advocating enough for employees.
You often bear the brunt of how employees are feeling. Does anyone stop to think about how you are feeling, and consider you may secretly share some of their frustrations as a fellow employee? You didn’t get into HR to be mistrusted or hated by your colleagues. The article noted that in 2022 LinkedIn found HR had the highest turnover rate among the jobs it tracked.
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