HR can't really care for the people if it doesn't care for the company and it can't care for the company if it doesn't really care for the people. Well, HR has to care for the company and the people, both, simultaneously. This unreasonable expectation that HR has to be your friend has also turned into another misconception: that HR only protects the interests of the company, and not the people. And HR doesn't need to be the 'friend' to care. It just means that, just like any other business function at work, HR doesn't have to be anyone's 'friend' to get the job done. This doesn't mean that HR can't be your friend, because it can or that it has to be your enemy, because it doesn't. There's an (unfounded and erroneous) expectation that for HR to be effective it has to be your 'friend'. and always it comes in a negative context as if to say 'don't trust HR, because HR is not your friend and it doesn't have your back'.

We never hear hallway gossip 'IT is not your friend'.īut, for some reason, we hear a lot 'HR is not your friend'. We never see the headline in the front page of a business magazine be 'sales is not your friend'.

We never hear 'marketing is not your friend'.

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