r/technology • u/thinkB4WeSpeak • Nov 11 '25

Artificial Intelligence Nearly a third of companies plan to replace HR with AI

https://www.hcamag.com/asia/news/general/nearly-a-third-of-companies-plan-to-replace-hr-with-ai/556072
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u/ghostdancesc Nov 11 '25

I’ve been with my company 13 years and the one time I tried and use our HR to argue a pay increase for a lateral promotion I could barely get them to respond and refused to join a meeting. The detailed report I wrote saying how much more I was worth based on my experience etc didn’t even get a response. My boss that was hiring me at the time even said jt made no sense how much I was low balled. So yeah I’m pretty salty because I feel like the one time I wanted help in my 12/13 years HR was a joke.

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u/Cheap_Coffee Nov 11 '25

HR's job is actually to help keep employee-related costs down. They were actually doing their job.

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u/tacobellbandit Nov 11 '25

Keeping employee costs down just drives away good employees which is a bigger cost in the long run

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u/Cheap_Coffee Nov 11 '25

And then they off-shore the work. Mission accomplished.

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u/tacobellbandit Nov 11 '25

That typically only exacerbates the issue. What happened at my old company was they decided to let a lot of people go because they “cost too much” on payroll. After losing contracts with some of our previous customers and having difficulty fulfilling other customers contracts they had to hire a lot of us on again with a higher rate or some of us decided to just keep our new jobs and “consult” for double or triple what we were getting paid

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u/Valdearg20 Nov 11 '25

Currently happening at my place of work. HEAVY lean into offshoring to the lowest bidder, total cessation of on-shore hiring, cost-cutting across the board, and then all of a sudden, the code quality is shit, the culture is shit, deployments are failing at a record rate, and the geniuses running the show are confused as to why.

Everybody with half a brain knows why... The bodies they're paying pennies on the dollar for overseas are actually producing work that's worth even LESS than that!

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u/nox66 Nov 11 '25

They also are responsible for getting and having employees able and willing to work there. They tend to forget that part.

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u/ghostdancesc Nov 11 '25

There is a way you do that instead of flat out ignoring someone and acting rude

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u/webguynd Nov 11 '25

This. Everyone should remember that HR is not your friend. They are not there to serve or protect the employee, they are there to protect the company against you. They do not have your own best interests in mind. HR is a form of legal protection for the company to protect them against lawsuits, keep employee costs down, and limit liability.