The HR Perspective You Won’t Hear Anywhere Else

A $50 gift card for saving a company $1M/month. Are bad employee recognition programs driving your best people out the door? Here's what the data shows.

"Dear Ellie" is an advice column from a seasoned HR consultant. Read her advice for an HR pro struggling with a toxic manager.

HR professionals are the designated shock absorbers of organizational life. When the workforce is anxious, they steady it. When leaders make difficult decisions, they manage the fallout. When employees experience trauma (layoffs, restructuring, harassment, grief), HR is the first call. They carry the institutional weight of every person in the building. Often simultaneously. Often without acknowledgment. And almost always without a people strategy of their own.