Literally no one cares what HR thinks
From a Stowe Boyd newsletter today:
Fifty-seven percent of HR leaders believe that making the business case for human leadership is a high-priority investment for the next year. However, most business leaders don’t trust data and analysis provided by HR.
In other words:
“Thx for the report, Stevens. It went immediately to my trash bin.”
The ways we discuss HR are a joke, as is … well, HR!
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…
