News Summary

• Human resources departments can have a bad reputation for not being someone an employee can trust.
• There can be this wrongful assumption that an HR professional is automatically going to side with the manager in a dispute between them and an employee.
• To clear the air about what exactly HR does and can help with, four HR experts weigh in on the biggest misunderstandings about HR’s role.
• To be most helpful, HR experts suggests escalating to HR earlier than when you’re at your breaking point.