> Most companies spend endless time and money writing and enforcing HR policies to deal with problems the other 3% might cause I would emphasize the word might

> Most companies spend endless time and money writing and enforcing HR policies to deal with problems the other 3% might cause I would emphasize the word might in this quote. The small mountain of HR policy poured on us slowly grows each year. To my knowledge, none of it is in response to any problems ever actually encountered. It's as if there is a certain legal mindset that every potential problem must be anticipated with a formal statement the receipt of which must be acknowledged by all employees. We have to acknowledge receipt, but I doubt anyone reads the nearly 100 pages (spread across a dozen documents) that have to be acknowledged each year. I bet this is just the default activity of any corporate lawyer, and that if senior management just said "write the policy that's necessary, but try to keep the burden on our employees to a minimum", the lawyers would do just that.