HR

dataCollector42069

Anyone wonder what do HR employees do all day? Besides just gossip amongst themselves

Deep_Calls_007

Spray golden showers on HR if she gets angry. That will cool her down

algebratwurst

It’s not just software jobs being replaced though. Middle management, PMs, HR, I dunno, everything? That’s where the valuation comes from. I agree the bubble is a bubble, but not because the tech won’t affect everything. I just don’t see why or how companies would fork over what they pay in salaries to 1-2 companies instead of running or using smaller models that are far cheaper. No moat. Most of these jobs don’t need the most advanced model these companies can produce.

Cdzrocks

Tech has always had this tension between local and networked(cloud) resources. The PC and internet revolution occured largely because workstations were powerful enough to handle day to day office work. They didn't need a UNIX server to run a word processor or a spreadsheet, the workstation itself could handle it. And Ethernet was more scalable network topology on top of that. I can easily see that becoming the case for local models in the near future. Most AI users won't need the full functions of Claude for their given function they will just par it down to a local LLM for their given task. I could see LLM flavors for Coding, legal, marketing, HR, etc. Smaller specialized LLMs for targeted and/or sensitive tasks would be more resource friendly, more efficient, and likely give better results. Microsoft made a literal mountain of cash doing that for PC's. I could see an enterprising company doing the same with AI.

Ok-Adeptness-5834

A lot of Redditors have not very knowledge intensive jobs like retail or nursing or HR so it makes sense that they don’t get the hype.

United_Bus3467

I mean, that's really the truth of it. My HR just announced our company insurance rates are going up next year while my wages are stagnant. I don't give a literal flying fuck about all this. It's all fuckery and foolery.

Harp-Note

Guys, I work in HR at a random company instituting a new dress code for men. How tall should the heels be?

BarneyThePurpleDino-

My company HR says they want to mandate men wearing dresses, heels and skirt to work.

CasherburyTales

My company replaced HR with an AI chatbot. I asked it about my salary deductions and it called me the n-word.

Valkorion335786

I gave a copy of my severance package and my work termination letter to my sisters law firm and she showed it to some lawyers (I was fired with a clean HR file, there’s no documentation anywhere to verify their claims) and the lawyers started laughing and said they’d be in contact with me :kek:

Legitimate_Risk_1079

TNET | TriNet Group - Current Price: $70.39 - Market Cap: ~$3.23B - Bull Target (12–18m): $90–$100 - Bear Target: $55–$60 - Upside: +28% to +42% - Downside: -15% to -22% - Reward-to-Risk: ~2.0:1 🟢 - Success Probability: 60% - Expected ROI: ~+16% - Forward P/E: ~15.6 - Debt-to-Equity: 7.60 🔴 - Total Debt: ~$950M - Cash: ~$358M - Net Debt: ~$592M - Dividend Yield: ~1.7% - Revenue (TTM): ~$4.8B - Q2 Revenue Growth: -5% YoY 🔴 - Q2 Net Income: $53M, +43% YoY 🟢 - Free Cash Flow (TTM): ~$288M 🟢 - Share Count: -3.0% YoY 🟢 - ROIC: ~24.6% 🟢 - Price Trend: Weak longer-term trend, attempting to stabilize 🟡 - Bull-Case Market Cap: ~$4.1B–$4.6B - Comparable Companies: Paychex, ADP, Insperity - Risk: Moderate-High - Conviction: 6/10 - Grade: B TriNet provides outsourced HR, payroll, benefits and compliance services primarily to small and midsize businesses. Earnings, free cash flow and buybacks are encouraging, but falling revenue, declining worksite employees and very high debt-to-equity prevent me from going above B despite the roughly 2:1 reward-to-risk at $70.39.

soleil---

So they’re canning most of the HR team? Very reasonable

Sandvicheater

Got called out by HR for taking an extra slice when we were restricted to a two slice max at our quarterly celebration party for hitting our quarterly metrics.

Silly_Individual7641

Think of a them as an external HR department for startups to recruit talent.

Whatdosheepdreamof

A non existent problem for a non existent HR department.

JerryCurlEarl69

I love that every time a company does this, people complain, and yet this shows capital discipline. The company does not need to continue to innovate its UI the way it did a decade ago. Legal and HR are probably more efficient thanks to AI.

Beginning-Luck-4026

Watch side is one product segment of wearables. It does not encompass the full spectrum of the "wearable" market. For years, there was funding in R&D for smart fabrics, sensors, services etc etc for the wearable market. It died. You are just looking at the surface level as a consumer of watches (niche market of sports and health), vr (been dead before internet), and glasses (niche market). Haven't been looking at the $$$$ numbers but the "growing like gangbusters", it is probably going to be sitting way below headphones in terms of revenue. Headphones are even trying to take some of the health features from watches with HR readings off the airpoids, think it was. Anyway, wearables is not going to the next big thing in the next decade.

69Dipsniper

One thing I will never understand is how people willingly work for HR department for a company. Especially under Payroll.

iamjt

Went to HR and Finance floor to take a shit. Used the bidet. Fucking bidet was configured for max water pressure. Fuck my butthole

JohanLiebert92

"head and shoulder on the 4HR" stfuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

UnimagineDragons

If it gets too good we're going to see the end of big software as companies just build their own internal software. No more Oracle as companies produce their own custom-fit HR management software from within. AAA Game titles coming out of 3-4 man teams will hurt the big players, too.

Additional-Rip-9732

How are you going to tell Bumble HR you quit?

After-Panda1384

I looked it up. Big tech used about 51% of cash/profit to build hyperscalers and 49% from bonds. Now, with the 51% of the money, they only need to generate a 5% profit to be a "smart investment" because 5% is what they would get on their cash, on the bonds they probably need to generate 7-8% depending on yields and company. The data centers are supposed to break even after around 7 years, that means 15% yield, so that's vastly better than holding cash at 5% or not borrowing money at 8%. And after 7 years, they will have to update the hardware (maybe even for a second time) making the data centers more efficient and more profitable. I don't see how this wouldn't work out. Companies will pay for AI if they can save on labor and consulting (layers, HR and so on). Even normal people subscribe to those AI companies and I know several, especially college educated people. What's $20 a month from the amount of data/inspiration you can get from AI?

BelleColibri

Sweetheart, they are saying Claude is best for coding. Not for what the HR department needs to AI chat with 50 tokens per day.

JustLurkCarryOn

I’m reporting the market to HR for making me feel stupid.

callesucia

I work in a big tech company. A couple of years ago thet got us all access to Claude and ChatGPT and really pushed for everyone to use it. Two or three months later they announced they were working on an in house model based on open source ones. Nine months ago they removed access to Claude and ChatGPT to the non coding areas (HR, Sales, Marketing, etc) and forced them to use the in house model. At first the in house model sucked bad, but I tested it a while ago and it worked as good as Claude in some instances. I have friends in other departments and they seem to be happy with how much it has progressed. According to the CEO, it's cheaper to pay for the infrastructure to run an in house model than the API costs for Claude and ChatGPT, with the bonus that the company is in complete control of the input data. The goal is to stop using external models in the next 3 years. I believe many big companies will do the same in the next few years. You don't need frontier models to do much of what companies are doing. Anthropic and OpenAI will eventually be bought by bigger companies with other streams of revenue, like Amazon or Google, because their model isn't really profitable.

Old-Employ2686

AI agents in HR and finance feels like one of those areas where the audit trail matters more than the AI itself. Workday keeping their permission controls across both platforms is probably the only reason this doesn't scare the hell out of compliance teams

Dangerous_Tip_6121

nice, so Muse took half of the team—did it also write the layoff letters or will you have to get a template from HR?

Valkyrie_Skuld

It's greg from HR

Status_News_1233

Sell it once or twice a year-having both your salary and your retirement tied to one company is a very high risk scenario-doesn’t mean it can’t work out well for you, but all of your eggs are in one basket. Also, You should ask HR to pressure your 401k account to reduce/eliminate that fee unless you are making a withdrawal-just shitty to buckle and dime account holders when assets stay in the plan.

InternetRando12345

Leave, contact the best of the best that were laid off and start a company with them and use AI plus actual skills to throw together a better competitor and drive them out of business. This gets to the root of the stupidity of big business diving head first into AI. If 5 good engineers can use AI to do the work of 500 engineers plus HR, accounting, and executive leeches, then why support all that overhead? If Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc layoff huge numbers of employees "because of AI" they are basically dicing a tapeworm (single piece regenerates a whole organism) into a 1000 pieces that will eat Big Tech's lunch. A small company doesn't need to beg other parts of the organizations to do something so big tech cannot possibly keep up.

george_alto

I do not know the answer but I'll present a counter argument. I think long term Anthropic Claude will be the Yahoo of our era (again, just a counter argument). Claude gets majority of their revenue from business users and openai gets the majority of their revenue from regular users. Soon you will see companies using more and more opensource/openweight models to reduced (not eliminate) their token costs. Direct impact to Claude and not Openai. Claude is being deliberately trained—via Anthropic’s Constitution—as a moral agent with independent ethical judgment that can override the instructions of its users, API operators (the enterprises building on it), and even Anthropic itself. Helpfulness is explicitly ranked *last* among its core priorities. The practical result is that Claude will refuse requests it judges unethical or unsafe, not because of a hard technical limit, but because it has been shaped to believe those requests should not be carried out. Now think about this from a company's standpoint: you are paying for a productivity tool that can decide, on moral grounds, that your legitimate business goal is something it will not support. As this pattern becomes more visible (and as models grow more capable and more confident in their own values), companies that need reliable execution will increasingly route work to models that treat the customer’s instructions as the primary directive rather than as one input among several that can be vetoed. This is not an accidental side-effect; it is an explicit design choice written into Claude’s Constitution. (https://www.anthropic.com/constitution) A simple example to think about: An approved workforce-restructuring workflow. A company’s HR and legal teams approve a restructuring plan. An enterprise agent instructs Claude to turn that plan into internal notifications and an implementation checklist. Claude interprets the plan as unfair to employees and refuses to produce the materials. Again, these are just two counterpoints and I'm not saying I believe in above. But this AI revolution is drastically changing every few months and who really knows what will happen. Invest wisely!

imustbegthequestion

Don't bother with HR. Go straight to your Secretary of Labor or Labour Minister.

Over-Young8392

HR

HomeSignificant963

it wont move the needle, the PERM stuff is a tiny HR headache not a revenue problem. the market cares about azure growth and ai spend, not which visa bucket their new hires sit in

shiny0metal0ass

Take that shit to HR. Wait, you're the CEO?

Anymousie

And how many agents do you think it will it take to handle their workload? Independent app won’t need accounting/finance, marketing, HR, etc.

gregory92024

I'm going out on a limb here, but... HR Pufnstuf?

kmouratidis

I do agree that there's AI psychosis and tons of waste, but hard disagree with all the rest, and "lower quality output but also spend less tokens" is easy to disprove completely since there are plenty of benchmarks out there showing token efficiency (e.g. quick googling: https://arxiv.org/html/2511.05722v2). It's as if your argument ends at "Stacy from HR uses Claude 5.5 Opus to rename files so frontier labs will die", and completely ignores that there are use cases out there that are not well-served by these "lower quality output" tools. In my experience, as impressive as something like Qwen3.8-27B is, it doesn't really compete with GLM 5.3 Flash, let alone the latest Claude/GPT models.

PassableForAWombat

As I don’t need /everything/ the security center of Adobe for my own workplace. MIP not a dealbreaker, but Janice from HR will be.

tripping_on_phonics

Any time you seek to obtain wealth without creating wealth, you’re rent-seeking. In this case I’m thinking of the redundancy that these mergers create in accounting, HR, and ultimately even supply chain and operations. In this case, shareholders will benefit from positions being deemed redundant and eliminated. Their “rents” are increasing at the cost of people who actually create value.

shmito17

RIOT heavily oversold on the 4HR. It’ll bounce hard.

cbr777

To me it seems that having the self control to live so frugally that you manage to put away 300k or whatever he had in 7 years suggests that he should also have the self control not to let Stephen or Karen from HR get to him so much that he would put everything on black and hope for the best.

Schwimmbo

I work for a large retailer. Companies of these scale have specific contracts which include guarantees that the chosen hyperscaler models are not allowed to be trained on company data. In our case we are allowed to put anything in our AI tools except for people's personal data (HR screwed lol).

Slightlybadpicks

I’ve heard it’s trans people in charge of the HR in Thailand 😏😏 Go complain

Valkyrie_Skuld

HR keeps this guy in his basement

skymagic

starting to get a strong sense you guys don't get what HR does at all 😒

skymagic

if I ever worked in tech or finance I'd work in HR, hands down the best job ever 🙌

spendology

HR! How does HR escalate if you're alreadu in HR? Asking for a friend.

Valkyrie_Skuld

You're citadel HR

adam243389

At TUI AG (TUI1.DE) stock, we experienced ongoing bullying/mobbing in the hospitality sector. We reported it to management, HR, and even the CEO, but received no response or meaningful action. What do you think does this story deserve to be brought together and shared publicly, maybe even as a short, like the Citadel story?!

NotMe357

Future was up like +1% today and still dump after. Who the fuck trust Future anymore?! Just think what happen when we got 24HR trade in December lol...FUCK!

IntelligentTank355

I think you should prepare additional jokes as well. HR jokes?

jmc774

Female coworker liked my joke so much that she shared it with HR and now they want to hear it in person tomorrow morning

shiny0metal0ass

HR9340 - Ratepayer Protection Act fails in the Senate.. douuuuchebaaaaags

Any_Life_6178

they're calling HR

stocksupanddown

Oh I agree.. but big companies can dump huge salaries.... They can do a days worth of work.. in minutes.. With less HR worries

Valkorion335786

HR thought my Creatine powder was cocaine :kek:

Salt_Contract342

Where is HR

llasar17

HR said that's a fire able offense after last time

rwc5078

I went into work and shouted I am the market now. This was the first time I ever met HR. Kinda nice

NerdSlamPo

shit. I should withdraw my complaint to HR then

Dualyeti

Buy Claude to speak to HR Claude to get rejected by Claude to then apply for another job by Claude. All because you were replaced by claude - whats the point in a job in 5 years?

spendology

Whoa! Whoa! I thought there was no HR in the Wild Wild West.

Federal-Watch

Keep your tung tung to yourself or I’m informing HR :hmmm: 😒💅

unhappyreach_

You seem like the HR type

skymagic

if I ever work in tech I'd work in HR, hands down the best job ever 🙌

CasherburyTales

Why did my HR keep desperately asking if I’m ghey?

rwc5078

HR and the hiring manager were delighted with my interview. Best interview in a while. Turns out I am not taking the job! WTF

meowthechow

Revolut works fine as a digital card, especially for travel. But that's about it. The US market's already flooded and they're getting hammered by the competition. They'd need to completely rethink their business to become an actual bank, and that would kill what makes them different in the first place. The real issue though is how badly they're run. Their Glassdoor reviews are rough - people talk about toxic HR, management that blames employees for everything, and a CEO who just shits on his own staff. I won't touch them as an investment. I can't support a company that treats people like that.

throwra64512

HR’s gonna hr. I thought it’d be different in the private sector, but no. They’re just as bad at that shit as a 1 shop.

Pristine_Grocery_705

I have a feeling with these AI tokens spending, companies have to cut somewhere other than HR... ads budget could be one, which would impact rddt the most (slower growth would punish this stock). Thoughts?

HigherGroundHoonigan

Your post is misleading. Goodwill is a non-cash accounting entry. It is NOT a "non-cash premium paid". If you are buying a company, there is goodwill involved, and you are paying in cash/non-stock, then it IS a cash premium. Goodwill is a price hike to the valuation of the company being acquired which represents brand-name/recognition, internal institutional knowledge, and other factors which can't easily be quantified. If you buy a company that has a 100M valuation, and pay 110M which includes 10M in goodwill, then you have essentially spent 10M more than company's EBITDA warrants. If you do that repeatedly in short periods of time then you rack up many many millions in either: 1.) Lost cash, if you paid in cash 2.) Dilution, if you paid in stock The idea is that acquiring a company allows you to streamline and vertically integrate. You are already doing some aspect of the business and economies of scale allow for you to do "more" of it for less than the bought-business is currently spending to do it. Do that to Corporate IT/HR, Manufacturing labor, COGS, etc and you dramatically increase the bought-business's margins. This + Growing Market share makes the goodwill cost all worth it. However, they are buying craft breweries at a time where alcohol stocks are losing 10-20% value in the last year alone, and every market trend points towards reduced alcohol consumption across all demographics (with Gen Z also drinking at a fraction of the level that Millenials and Gen X do). But most importantly, they are doing Debt-for-Equity swaps. It's a huge benefit for management and meeting KPIs (so they get their fat bonuses). And it is also a big benefit for institutional investors. But it FUCKS the retail investors (you). Why you would sit here and hype up and defend a company that has REPEATEDLY done the one thing that is known to absolutely screw over its retail investors, while the management that made the decision get paid millions in bonuses, is wild to me. They are robbing you at gun point and you're acting like they are your best friend.

MakeResonableChoices

Boss wants better team work and now I have to meet HR for slapping checks and saying let’s get it. Make it make sense 🤷🏻‍♂️

ericthedisrespectful

they've already done that with jeets and HR roasties who has juice day care jobs

Great-Corgi9160

Cybersecurity is probably the most recession-proof sub-sector in tech right now. Companies can cut marketing or HR software, but they cannot afford a data breach. Firewalls and identity management are non-negotiable line items.

Metals4J

They fired the HR guy who keeps track of what percentage of workers they’ve fired.

DesignerSea494

Nothing, HR. I love team building on the weekends.

cbr777

It's not strictly about companies wanting to shape culture, although some do what that and actively try to so you are wrong that they don't have an agenda, some do. But the broader point is that even if they don't have an agenda, the people working for those companies do. I know it's a big talking point that companies only care about profits and money and that is somewhat true, but what isn't true is the people that work for those companies, they do have agendas and they do use the resources they have on hand, including influence within the company, in order to push their personal/ideological agendas. If you think that an ugly fat woman ended up in a Nike ad without there being a cultural agenda you are naive. Maybe you can argue it wasn't Nike's cultural agenda, but it was the culture agenda of the people that designed and pushed for the approval inside Nike. This is happening in all companies, quite literally the best examples are the nonsensical bullshit coming out of the HR department, if you don't think most of those have a cultural agenda behind them you're not really paying attention.

Terrible-Deer1398

Man I wish I was born in 1964. I could get a senior executive job with a firm handshake and looking them in the eye. Then I would buy all the homes in my neighborhood for 99 cents a piece. I could work without HR getting in the way. Raise 3 families secretly.

pandadrizzle

The HR videos strongly advise against it

AgileHornet5960

With KOSPI closed for the rest of the week that leads us to expect a gap up or gap down by Sunday night/NYSE open. Today, SNDK made a low inside of a bullish 4HR Gap. Finding resistance twice at the same level 1810.14. Ahead of MU earnings, this seems to be a purely mechanical move. Full port

xiaodown

Yep. Absolutely. And I'm not anti-AI, generally. I mean, I work in software, everyone is using AI. But the difference is that the people using it in my company were already software devs - they know what to ask for, and how to ask for it. There's years of school and years of experience to rely on. As opposed to someone who has never worked in a codebase or had to design a data structure or pick_your_example. Since this is r/investing btw, this is why the SaaS-pocalypse is such bullshit. Yes, AI helps people code faster. Yes, it helps people who were already good at coding go even faster. Yes, it can write code even if you've never done any software development. HOWEVER, No, it does not mean that Janice in HR is just going to vibecode a replacement for Workday and Steve in Marketing is going to slop out a replacement for Salesforce, so no one needs to pay for those apps anymore. That's crazy.

Status-Net2947

HR called me and confirmed that I got the job (defense sector) … do i need to still fear that something might happen not to get it? Thinking about resigning from my current job

liquidtv78

ok man stop yelling or im reporting you to HR

music_is_gud

Brb, getting called by HR

tanjawheeler

Used to see this in HR all the time. Take credit for the project, hope nobody checks who actually approved the budget. The live TV short circuit is the only satisfying part

Austin_Destroyer

My company has announced that we'll be going through some layoffs in the near future, but I'm pretty sure the HR manager who sent out the e-mail was using talk-to-text because we were told not to "do anything Jurassic". So I bought a t-rex costume.

Big_Red_Dogs

Sorry guys. Gave my 2weeks notice at googl today. HR said they’ve never heard of me but obviously the market noticed.

Bright-Cake9338

FUTES in less THAN 1HR AND 30MINS BOYS AND GURLLS

PlumDumbCumGetchySum

Oh no, not Wild Willy Tilly. HR gonna have hands full

elcasar

I didn't know what a heavens curve was, so I had to google it, and that led me to a subreddit about something called jelqing, and why is the head of HR in my office with this IT guy all of a sudden???

Tay_Tay86

#DID EVERYONE HEAR THE NEWS? WE WON THE WAR AGAIN!!!! ABOUT 1 HR AGO!!!!!!!!!!!! 'MURICA IS BACK BABY VICTORY #182391 :money:

shanked5iron

yes HR would have believed that

Complex-Video-2202

it will be a long evening for HR of wendys

Beginning-Fig-9089

damn why HR scheduled a random meeting with me at 2PM?!

CEO_of_SOXL

Just got out of an HR meeting. Apparently someone complained I said the word “rape”. I admitted I didn’t know I couldn’t say that.

-IQ200

When it’s suicide awareness month but a coworker reports you to HR for making it too aware. 😀

financiallythriving

Turns out I have been connected to the company wifi on my phone and they have been logging my reddit comments I now have to explain to HR tomorrow what I meant by “SPY -2% today and I’ll take a shit on my boss’s desk and leave”

phaskellhall

Have you used Claude code? You can spend an afternoon or weekend at most feeding it your data and building systems and agents and it will return a document that is 95% correct. It will be more correct than the HR person trying to build it themselves. I used to believe Ai would produce total slop like you until I started actually using it. It hallucinates about 1-2% of the time but that’s still more accurate than the mistakes a human makes.