In the ten years that I’ve been working in an HR capacity, I’ve heard time and time again that “HR is not a revenue department.” Essentially you have to operate within a lean HR budget because it’s not a department that can make the business money. One could easily argue that an HR department CAN in fact make you money by finding you strong candidates that execute roles that bring revenue to the business, but that’s a stretch.

When you start to look at the reasons why people leave organizations, a lot of research and data points to poor leadership. There’s a quote that we wholeheartedly believe that states “People don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses” meaning that employees may love their jobs but they will still leave because of bad management or a bad boss.

No matter what direction it takes, it certainly puts HR or a small business owner in an uncomfortable spot. When situations like this come up, the question always is, "Do you have to let the employee have their parent present?"