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Much of what HR used to do seems to be automated away and they seem to be glad that it was. Every company that I've worked at for the last 20 years HR doesn't manage your payroll or deductions or any of that they have a system you log into and you do it yourself. Along with all the other benefit styles systems they are not something they manage individually anymore they have outsourced it.

Most of the people that I see who are attracted to HR positions or are in current HR positions remind me very much of that high School click of kids that thought they were better than everyone else, but they didn't have any tangible merits or reasons for this self-belief, and for some reason everyone wanted to suck up to them. So HR seems to be this popularity contest people that are meant to resolve interpersonal disputes that arise from work but those disputes don't get solved on any kind of merit. Those disputes get solved in one of three ways usually; by the popularity of the persons involved, the dei initiatives that the company needs to adhere to or, the person who cried first. There's nothing about merit or an unbiased investigation or attempting to truly resolve things. HR seems to want to put together yoga and wellness classes and other nonsense because they literally lack any other job function in the company now because it is all outsourced.

There are of course exceptions but those exceptions are becoming quite exceptional nowadays. I am not a fan of AI but with as bad as most HR is at any company I've worked at replacing it with AI I would literally notice no difference.