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Why HR needs to go back to basics
Overwhelmed human resources teams should remember what employees really value at work
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A recent survey of United States and United Kingdom HR professionals found that 98 per cent of HR employees felt burned out.
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
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Pity HR. From hybrid work to quiet quitting, there are few current management preoccupations that do not end up becoming the problem of the human resources department.
“Human capital” is this decade’s business buzzword; a rebranding of the “our people are our greatest asset” cliche for an age when financial capital has been easier to come by than skilled labour.
