Q. Are HR on your side?

Are HR on your side? Our answer is that HR isn't your friend, but they're not your enemy.

Human resources are not there to act as a friend that is automatically on your side. There is a myth that HR works for the company and not the employees. Some people think HR is a sort of referee between employees and management (they’re not!) or between employees and other employees (they’re usually not that either).

So what is HR all about. What does HR do, exactly?

Human Resources covers a huge range of things: benefits, compensation, personnel policy, legal compliance, investigations, hiring assistance, employee relations (which can be anything from identifying and addressing employee complaints to helping a manager address a performance problem), and much more. You often hear people say, “HR works for the company, not the employees.” That’s 100 percent true! But that doesn’t mean that HR is inherently untrustworthy or that you should expect them to be adversarial if you go to them with a problem. It just means that HR’s function is to serve the needs of the company.

In many cases, serving the needs of the company also means serving the needs of employees—for example, with things like ensuring the company is offering competitive salaries, addressing bad management, and working to raise morale. Good HR professionals do care about what’s fair and right.

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