What does “HR is not your friend” mean? [duplicate]

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

We often get "HR is not your friend" at Workplace. What does this phrase mean? What are the motivations and incentives of Human Resources (HR) that might set it at odds with an employee?

I think a canonical answer here would be useful, especially for new entrants into the workforce, and for anyone unfamiliar with the phrase and coming across it here.

manpreet 2 years ago

As per great answer of BoboDarph

That dept. is not there to give you justice. They just do whatever's best for the company, even if that's not right for you individually, even if it's slightly illegal, even if they have to cover href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/stuff">stuff up (their asses included). As long as management is happy, HR is also happy.

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Companies are not court houses, they do not dispense justice, most of them are led by people who only care about the bottom line for their investors. HR is there to help optimize the costs by ensuring href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/employee">employee compliance to internal rules and legal href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/requirements">requirements, not to settle disputes between co-workers. They do that only to prevent legal action by href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/employee">employees or the href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/state">state, and usually are pretty ruthless in defending the company when such possibility arises.