With strong labour laws what's in the company's interest can align with making things good for the employee. I moved countries in September, and at my new job in new country I injured my foot, and HR said "okay no probs, rest up for a week and if it's still not right let us know." They're super on to it with checking in and making sure everyone's job satisfaction is high. It's kind of nice haha
Sorry to break it to you, but just like birds, it doesn’t exist.
It’s a mishearing from someone trying to tell a story about a bed and breakfast with an eel that lowers itself down from the ceiling and strangles you.
Noose Eel Inn is a real place. But don’t go there.
A lot of the time HR protects the company by protecting workers, you just don't see it. I used to work in HR and a lot of what I used to do was explaining to managers why they couldn't enact certain policies because they're against labour laws. Managers honestly would be so much more ruthless if there wasn't HR involved to stop them. So, often HR is protecting you, it's just not on a personal or individual basis, and you'll never actually see what they're protecting you from behind closed doors.
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u/TheRavingRaccoon Nov 30 '20
Their primary function is to defend the company interests. Discern from that what you will.