Is HR A Lonely Soul At Office ?-off Topic Debate

Indu
I think it takes time to settle down and then it also depends on the individuals interpersonal skills, how the individual gels with the organization becoz, if HR is " ALL ABOUT PEOPLE " and as an Hr professional , if we cant gel with them ?
i wonder who else would ?
its a peoples world over there! :))

Respected Senior(Raaj Bhatia)
Thank you for your comments .You have rightly pointed out HR is there for people and that is exactly the reason why I chose HR as a profession but whenever I try to mingle with the employees ,the employer gets unhappy with that .They want me to keep distance from employees so that I can enforce discipline,but I absolutely agree with you that "it takes time to settle down ",so Iam just holding on to it.
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Thanks and Regards
Indrani Chakraborty

feeling much comfortable now, after seeing all of your views. I am also working in medium sized IT company, & facing the same problem now a days. First time thought to Resign but then thought to face & then do whatever. Again i am feeling very much relax now to see that almost everybody is on the same boat.
But friends, i need your suggestions, i am just adjusting myself to remain calm & patient now in this difficult situation. or has not compalint/questioned anything to higher management. but, do i need to do this now.... or after some time.....
Please advice..
Thanks,
Anju

Hi HR Colleague,

I noticed on thing from your write-up that you are spending 10 hours in office and must be at least two hours traveling time to reach office. This is not good practice but I often found many indians working more than 8 hours in office is unwarrented. In Western countries, Middle East as well as in Africa I experienced working hours strictly adhered to 8 working hours in practice except under extraordinaty circumsatances no worker or employee allowed to overstay in the office because it is not safe and employees is not slaves to work beyond official working hours they have privacy as well as social life and cannot be deprived.

This is heinous crime against humanity and people are not being paid for this in many Indian companies. Even if employees asked for compensatiory off against extratime spend in office in many cases they is deprived by their bosses advising him that his inefficiency as basic cause of overstay in office or employees are adulated by faulty promises to rewared for his extra work treatedd as hardwork will be appreciated while increments is pure deception to contrive expolitation of employees nothing else.
This is not good proctice at all and against all human rights even in many organizations in India people work on weekly off days just as presumed that they are overpaid therefore extrawork but neithrer they overpaid nor they are acknowledge of extra services.

But unfortunately there no way if you have to work in such organization and continue to work employer ofter takes it as your basic need for bare minimum sustenance and until you find alternative employment in better work culture organization people continue but this kind of extraworking hours culture damages the employees dignity as well as respect from the same employer for whom he work to show as hardworking.

I just highlighted this weakness of HR in Indian industries which is very much prevelent and is one among HR challenges to improve at gloval level provtices and protect the employees from being expoloited.

Regards

sawant

Hi Everybody,

I am new to the forum and have been working in HR for the past two years. I definitely feel like a lonely soul. Over the past couple years our HR dept has decreased in size from 5 people to two. We've had a few layoffs, and now it's just me and my manager. We all use to hang out periodically for birthdays and other special events, but now that my manager is head of my dept. she tends to hangout with the rest of the support team. They go out for lunch together almost everyday, as well as hangout after work a few times a week. She has even babysitted for on occasion for one of them. I understand her not wanting to socialize with me, but I feel kind of on my own. I feel like I'm my own dept and she's a part of the support team. These people didn't really socialize with her until she became in charge of the HR dept. I'm happy that she's made friends but I feel kind of left out. I'm not sure what to do. These people are all managers and I'm an HR specialist, so I feel that they all have something in common. At the same time people more on my level don't really want to socialize with me because they feel like they can't be themselves since I'm in HR, or at least that's the feeling I'm getting. How can I avoid feeling so alone. Also, since our size has decreased my workload and increased, so there's not a lot of time to socialize. Does anybody have any ideas?