HR Is A Laughable Department

... and in places where it's not already, it will soon be automated to the hilt.

Since the start of COVID, there have been probably 29,181 articles written about what “HR leaders” are doing to help their employees around virus concerns, parenting vs. work, safety, virtual onboarding, etc. Now, I happen to know a lot of HR people (some of them even leaders), and there are people who are doing this and doing it well and even challenging and pushing back on their core executive teams (CEO, CFO, CTO, CIO, COO). Most? No. Most HR people roll over for the big-money executives, check their boxes and do their compliance, get ignored for big meetings/concerns, and get brushed aside for legal on important compliance matters. What I just said is the reality of most places; the only question is how willing you are to admit it.

Well, now we have Article 29,182 about HR leaders and COVID, right here. It’s about adapting to uncertain times, which is a huge bucket of “thought leadership” as is. Also kinda worth remembering how silent thought leaders have been on racial discord, largely because they are terrified of losing clients since they already lost speaking fees.

OK, so back to this article above. Let’s walk through a paragraph together.

Here would be that paragraph