Douglas advises HR people really get their head around that. “In both these legal issues, the burden is on the company. The person is presumed to be an employee and it's the company's job to establish ...

Human Resources is typically not a fun topic. The mild-mannered and unremarkable HR rep Toby Flenderson in NBC’s “The Office” seemed to drive that point home for nine seasons.

Kim had gravitated to HR after working in career services during college. “I found the work to be very meaningful and important,” she says, “And I wanted to experience the other side of it.” ...

And I haven’t looked back. What drove me to stay in HR is the impact you can have on people’s careers. I really enjoy getting to know people's aspirations, coaching them, giving them guidance and ...

I get the evil thing. For the past 18 years, I’ve used the moniker “Evil HR Lady” precisely because people do have a negative attitude toward HR. HR is responsible for bearing bad news and ...

His focus is reporting on the labor market, careers, HR strategy and trends associated with where, when and how people are working. He's covered these topics in previous staff roles at Morning ...

Carlson, for whatever reason, imagines that without HR, people somehow wouldn’t be terminated and marched out of the building. Terminations existed in the utopian days when they had “personnel ...

Organizations that fail to manage people priorities during the transformation stage — HR’s expertise — risk “overexerting, overwhelming, and disengaging employees,” an outcome that is ...