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No offense meant to the wonderful HR people who are no doubt out there, but from my experience HR people are good with: * Processes, procedures and forms * 40
by ora600 16y ago
No offense meant to the wonderful HR people who are no doubt out there, but from my experience HR people are good with:
* Processes, procedures and forms
* 401K, health insurance and other benefit programs
* Buying salary surveys
* Finding template bonus programs, performance evaluation programs and hire-a-friend programs. Adjusting them a bit to fit current organization.
* Employment and immigration laws
I've never found them to particularly understand people and relationships. I've worked for 4 years for a corporation where I never once managed to talk to an HR person. Everything was done through support tickets. But even in smaller companies, I found that HR folks are more of systems-people than people-people.
- mixmax 16y agoPresuming you're from the US it seems that HR fills a somewhat different role over there. The people I know in HR in Denmark are very people oriented. the point remains the same though. I don't think hackers would be very good at processes, procedures and forms. Hackers create, this is administration.
- jleyank 16y agoI have always thought that in the US, HR people exist to protect the company from their employees. Make sure that things go correctly hiring and firing, to minimize the chance of lawsuits. Basically, they're company people and looking at them as anything else is a mistake. If those in Denmark are people people, good for them!