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If your Human Resources people don't play a significant role in purchasing your human resources, something has gone wrong.
by username223 13y ago
If your Human Resources people don't play a significant role in purchasing your human resources, something has gone wrong.
- tptacek 13y agoGive me a break. In most companies, "human resources" exists primarily to cut people's health insurance benefits.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- webmaven 13y agoHmm. 'Cut', as in 'reduce', or as in 'distribute' (eg. 'cut a check')?
- socialist_coder 13y agoI've worked for 2 large technology companies. The first was a big one down in Southern California and HR there was as you describe. The other was a big one in San Francisco, and their HR was insanely powerful... for some reason. It was quite a shock to me but to a lot of others used to Bay Area startups they made it seem like the norm. So I guess my point is that not all HR is alike and there is probably some truth to this HR negotiating business.
- nl 13y ago1000 times, no. HR is there to make sure you know where the toilets are. They can't pick a Javascript programmer, nor can they decide what to pay for one.
- judk 13y agoBut they are the ones having the actual conversation and working the rhetoric to close a deal. They aren't Deciders, but they are Negotiators ("salespeople").