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If you expand it out logically. Since all companies make money from providing services and those services are provided by employees then employees are paying th
by yardie 9y ago
If you expand it out logically. Since all companies make money from providing services and those services are provided by employees then employees are paying the HR bill through the carrying costs of being employees.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoTo continue this line of reasoning: ultimately the customer, or end user, pays the bills. Which is nonsense, of course: Neither I, nor the customers, nor the end users, have the authority to hire HR staff, sign off on their salary payments, or set their working policies.
- mcny 9y agoI learned of something called principal agent problem not too long ago and now I want to fit it everywhere (when all you have is a hammer yada yada). I think it works here Even when HR is perfectly operational, it favors the institution over anything else. Of course, in real life we have difficulty favoring the institution over the management. I imagine some questions are out of HR's reach though. Why is the pay highest at the top? Why should a supervisor need more pay than the people they supervise? Why can't we make all pay information public in a public company? Could we recruit, hire, and keep talented people (especially at the top) with something other than simply better pay? How "hands-on" should HR be?
- philipov 9y ago> yada yada When all you've got is an agent, everything looks like a principal.
- monocasa 9y agoCapital != labor.
- evanlivingston 9y agoOh so if we follow that out further we find that managers and COs work for the employees too!
- Avshalom 9y agoGood luck convincing anyone of that; capitalism is basically built on the idea that employees can't create value only owners.