HR is just a way to funnel importance into a single role.
If you have enough staff to warrant a HR, then you have enough staff to promote one in say five to I don't know... team leader, supervisor position who shouldn't be doing the standard till work like everyone else but the uuh I don't know, managing their teams.
I see so many team leader and store manager positions that are just glorified shop worker positions and shop worker positions that do bare minimum.
When I worked shop floor, we were all taught how to input orders for next week, load/unload and input new deliveries and collectively sort rotas, amongst a whole bunch of work now considered managerial. Sure we would have to wait for the team lead/manager to sign off on say orders, but that meant our manager wasn't on the shop floor doing bloody stacking! There even used to be a difference between a floor worker and a salesperson! (sales people's sole job was till work, orders, and shark roaming to pull sales, floor work was the "kids" work of stack, clean, Q&A)
Now I see shop floor staff basically equating to sweep floor, stack shelf, press the money button the till.
No disrespect intended to those who do shopfloor work, but it has gotten less responsibility but greater focus on "sales intensivity".
HR is just a way to funnel importance into a single role.
If you have enough staff to warrant a HR, then you have enough staff to promote one in say five to I don't know... team leader, supervisor position who shouldn't be doing the standard till work like everyone else but the uuh I don't know, managing their teams.
I see so many team leader and store manager positions that are just glorified shop worker positions and shop worker positions that do bare minimum.
When I worked shop floor, we were all taught how to input orders for next week, load/unload and input new deliveries and collectively sort rotas, amongst a whole bunch of work now considered managerial. Sure we would have to wait for the team lead/manager to sign off on say orders, but that meant our manager wasn't on the shop floor doing bloody stacking! There even used to be a difference between a floor worker and a salesperson! (sales people's sole job was till work, orders, and shark roaming to pull sales, floor work was the "kids" work of stack, clean, Q&A)
Now I see shop floor staff basically equating to sweep floor, stack shelf, press the money button the till.
No disrespect intended to those who do shopfloor work, but it has gotten less responsibility but greater focus on "sales intensivity".