HR professionals are experiencing heightened workloads due to rolling layoffs, return-to-office mandates, and demands for AI training, alongside the consequences of immigration policy changes. Veteran HR workers like Evan Loveless express the emotional strain of delivering layoff news, feeling continuously under a 'raincloud'. The situation has worsened after the chaotic pandemic period, which introduced remote work challenges and heightened employee tensions. Experts note that this current confluence of challenges in HR is unprecedented in recent history, with profound impacts on both employees and HR personnel.
HR professionals say the job is getting downright ugly due to unceasing layoffs, stricter return-to-office mandates, immigration raids, and a sudden need for AI training.
Working in HR has never been glamorous, and now the new challenges are unprecedented in the 30 years Jim Link has been a human-capital leader.
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