ASK THE HEADHUNTER $2 billion company has no HR or IT

[deanwebb]

$2 billion company has no HR or IT

Nick’s take We’ve discussed why Human Resources is unnecessary before. Tom Peters, a management sage of the 1980s, famously said the maximum size of an organization before it begins to fail is 11. He later upped it to 25. Greg Jackson turns even this unconventional wisdom on its head. Jackson has 1,200 employees and his company seems to work well because none are in HR or IT. I wish the article included more details about “how” other employees can handle such tasks. Can a company with 1,200 employees really operate without HR and IT departments? Are managers and employees really

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[deanwebb]

Nice to see what that hands-off approach leads to when different teams are trying to cobble together their solutions...

[Otanx]

So every manager is responsible for their own IT and HR? That sounds like a nightmare to me. The procurement team has IBM laptops, and O365. The payroll guys all use Dell and Google docs. Marketing is all in on Apple except Steve, he has a Razor that he reformats to a new Linux distro each week. The facilities team bought cheap used systems off ebay because the building system software won't run on anything newer than windows 95.

-Otanx

[wintermute000]

yeah nah unless you have some overarching mandate like 'everyone is O365 or goog' then how TF does it work, let alone servers/hosting/cloud etc. lol I don't believe it for a split second.

[deanwebb]

Then there's the matter of what happens when there's a harassment issue at work. I can see letting managers do their own hires, but if someone has a complaint against a manager, how does that get resolved without a massive lawsuit because the company failed to do due diligence?

Now, if all the stuff is outsourced, then your company has HR and IT, but it's outsourced... and that's not always a cost-effective measure.