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I don't disagree, but will just add that we seem to be viewing HR focusing on the various harassment/lawsuit/firing processes. I feel like HR has more value th
by foobarian 9y ago
I don't disagree, but will just add that we seem to be viewing HR focusing on the various harassment/lawsuit/firing processes. I feel like HR has more value than just shielding a company from some hypothetical lawsuit; the fact that so many companies have them must mean that they are revenue positive on average.
What would happen if your company did not have a HR dept?
- who would greet and onboard new employees?
- who would sign them up for health care?
- who would pay them and send out tax forms?
Even if there may be other roles that take care of the above I'm sure a lot more stuff I'm not thinking of right now would get a lot more annoying without a HR dept.
- megaman22 9y agoAccounting for 2 & 3, and the team they work on for 1. I dunno how big a company you need to be to need a single full-time HR person, let alone a department... 50, maybe? HR are what would be called in the military REMFs. Most corporations I've worked with have an order of magnitude more "support" staff than people who are actually doing revenue-producing work, and the bigger they are, the more wastage of this type they can afford to support, which feeds upon itself to produce yet more management and ancillary positions.