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Really great points. This is also not just restricted to small companies either - most large companies have HR departments with so many levels and decades old p
by RyanZAG 14y ago
Really great points. This is also not just restricted to small companies either - most large companies have HR departments with so many levels and decades old procedures that they have literal armies of drones filling in useless paperwork put in place by numerous HR directors over the years. Some companies have HR departments collect dossiers on employees, including fingerprints, history of photos, all medical conditions, all leave dates and vacation destinations, financial history, etc. This is expensive to maintain and nearly always useless in the extreme.
HR in general needs a major reworking.
- spencerfry 14y agoThose are my feelings exactly. I'm not as familiar with companies over ten employees -- I've never been in an environment any bigger -- but I'm sure that if we're having issues at ten then companies of one hundred, five hundred, and thousand+ are having any even worse time keeping track of everything.
- ktsmith 14y agoPeople talk about IT the same way you are talking about HR. It's not always the case that what is put in place is unnecessary or useless. It is often the case that those not having to deal with these processes on a regular basis think they are unnecessary or useless.
- spencerfry 14y agoI don't think either of us are saying that they're unnecessary or useless. We're just saying in 2013, technology can make these processes more efficient as well as better designed.