2026-10-01 06:27 UTC
When my career started in the late 70s was when companies started using the term “Human Resources” instead of “Personnel”. I’ve always thought it was a terribly degrading phrase and I’ve never understood how it caught on never left.
Replies (5)
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@cosmos8188@leminal.space 2026-10-01 09:30
Personnel department sounds so much neater.
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@mobyduck648@lemmy.world 2026-10-01 14:14
Yeah I hate it, it sounds exactly like the worm-tongued bureaucrat-speak that it is. Orwell wrote about exactly this kind on nonsense in Politics and the English Language and it is as true as ever today.
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@Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2026-10-01 16:48
It’s now being referred to as Human Capital
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@VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 2026-10-01 16:49
A lot of places also stopped calling their employees “employees” and started calling them “associates”. What’s up with that?
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@chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2026-10-01 17:22
I’m okay with it being called HR, because it’s the more honest term for what it is.