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At this size u need HR just to deal with holiday requests and sick leave.
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Or just delegate down to the employee's direct supervisor. You need HR when someone has a harassment claim against a coworker, or their boss. Some third party not in their chain.
Having 150 people do HR tasks means you have 150 different versions of vacation policies. In large companies that works, because there's an actual HR department that writes the ironclad rules that the direct supervisors follow. Not sure how it works in a wild-west ad-hoc environment like this one.
More here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56130187 But this is all very vague and hand-wavy as to how specialist functions, skills and knowledge are provided especially with regard to legal compliance, and tech types rubbing their hands in glee should note that he dismisses IT departments as well. It seems there is a more nuanced philosophy here that there may be useful lessons to draw on but it isn't detailed i…
Full article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56130187
> But it is a single, personal incident, which haunts him to this day, that really underpins his management philosophy. "When I was 27, I was managing a manufacturing business in north London and there was a woman who ran the reception and also did customer service, who was in her 40s," he remembers. "One day I heard her speaking to a customer on the phone and I thought I could help, so I leaned in and gave her some…
The photos are copyright Greg Jackson and Octopus Energy. The office shot is too idealised.
The last statement should be a direct quote, but it is written as a statement of fact:
> The episode taught him to favour a hands-off approach that lets individuals and teams sort their own affairs as much as possible without interference from above.
This seems like his PR team has fed the article to the journalist, who has complied by publishing what they wanted, without researching the veracity by interviewing staff independently.
With good policies and good people, you don't need "HR". I would argue he has HR just without a centralized department. Although either way, the only good HR is no HR. HR sucks.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having 150 people do HR tasks means you have 150 different versions of vacation policies. In large companies that works, because there's an actual HR department that writes the ironclad rules that the direct supervisors follow. Not sure how it works in a wild-west ad-hoc environment like this one.
Isn't that a good thing? Each team has its own vacation policy that suits them, instead of some rules imposed on them by HR department.
(This isn't sarcasm, I actually do vaguely suspect the world would be a better place if we did this.)
Makes for a good headline though, who doesn't hate HR and IT...
...always getting in our way of running random code on our machines or coming to work without pants /s
Full article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56130187
> But it is a single, personal incident, which haunts him to this day, that really underpins his management philosophy. "When I was 27, I was managing a manufacturing business in north London and there was a woman who ran the reception and also did customer service, who was in her 40s," he remembers. "One day I heard her speaking to a customer on the phone and I thought I could help, so I leaned in and gave her some…