I really dislike the way businesses refer to people as resources. Four meetings today and everyone has said we need more resources to do something. They are people. You need more people to do it.
@philbowell I once had an interview at a place where the person interviewing me had the title of “Human Capital Manager.” Seeing the title was enough to let me know this was a bad bad bad place to work.
@eli ugh, that would definitely set off alarm bells for me as well. It amazes me how businesses get into this state and think it’s a healthy thing.
@philbowell Thank you for saying this. With all due respect to those who work in HR, the whole aim of HR – like a lot of corporatespeak – often seems bent on reducing people to numbers and capacity. A dehumanizing slippery slope of thought, it seems.
@garciabuxton That’s very true. I would imagine it’s easy for it to happen, people become numbers when a business is over a certain size. I guess a good HR person should always be able to keep the human at the heart of Human Resources.