There are so many things out there now that can do all that can take the place of HR personnel. Software programs, external database reporting services, companies that can perform either full or temp HR services all of it much cheaper than hiring a full time person. There are some companies who offer partial HR duties, basically a menu of services. A particular charge per service, again still cheaper than a full time HR person.
This is not even including AI. What better way to ground test developing HR than to have replace internal HR staff.
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HR is only there to prevent salary increases for deserving employees.
My last HR clown took my request for increase so personally due to it being an interal and lateral move. He wouldn't even present it to the hiring manager. It's not your money HR. Calm down.
Oh, I’m sure all that smugness is removed off of HR’s face by now.
HR people are useless script readers. There is zero need to have them. Bunch of mindless clowns reading a piece of paper. They can’t think for themselves.
I went through like 5 different recruiters during the onboarding process and each one started from scratch not knowing where the other one left and they all seem to lack attention to detail as they always scheduled things the days I specifically told them I wasn't available, and they all lack response or went mute. When I finally was made an offer by one of them over a call, he seemed to take the issue so unprofessionally and had no guidance whatsoever to questions and gave pretty wrong answers.
Citi feels like a ship without a captain or an airplane without a pilot. Nobody knows where it is heading. It has been 8 months since the reorg announcement and employees are clueless at every level. Nothing has improved except more daily uncertainty and lower morale.
Makes sense to me actually. Less people, less need for HR. Keep the HR full time employees at a bare minimum. Outsource the HR tasks to cheaper temp contractors as needed. How does this not make sense? Cost savings all the way around.
There’s many HR programs that allow the employees to manage their own information, leverage that. What good is HR anyway. The only use they serve is to take notes in any high profile meeting. A temp contractor can do that at half the cost of an HR FTE. Again, it makes 100% sense to me.
Especially those in the DEI-related departments.
“Knows better” than the OP?
Yeah, right. If they knew better Citi wouldn’t be in the position they are in right now. Its their decisions that got us where we are now. You know, the lowest performing bank ever, laying off, over bloat on the levels etc….
“Know better”….LOL…..they let go of 300 MD’s only to replace them with 310 more and call it removing excessive layers. This is knowing better….LOL.
Seems Jane and every other C level leader who had input knows better than you, as the major cutting was not done in HR. Nice troll post though.