HR should make it a main priority to protect and advocate for their employees because having satisfied workers makes good business sense, Inc. columnist Suzanne Lucas writes. “But, in many companies, HR is spineless,” Lucas notes.
She worked 10 years in corporate human resources. However, what employees need to understand is that HR is not charged with making the ultimate decisions that will impact them. Lucas recounts one instance where an employee blasted his company for changing work schedules without speaking to staff first.
“There could have been many heated meetings where the head of HR went to battle with the CEO” on behalf of workers, Lucas writes. “Maybe she presented numbers and graphs and gobs of evidence that this would be a bad move, but in the end, the CEO said, ‘This is how we are going to do this.’”