Work sucks! This was the title of the speech Laszlo Bock, former Vice-president for HR at Google, gave at this year's annual conference of the world's largest organisation of HR managers, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
Even people who have great jobs experience bad days, said Bock. And then, of course, there are people who don't have great jobs. What can HR people do about it? Fix it.
Laszlo Bock managed Google's HR from 2005 to2016, i.e. from the time when the company had 6,000 employees until the number of employees rose to 76,000. At present, he runs his own consulting business. He says the position of HR is unique because HR really can change the world of work for the better.
