While I don’t have an objection to the idea of rebranding the community health team, I want to push back a bit against labelling it as human resources.
HR already has a meaning, and there is relatively little overlap between the function of community health within the EA community and the function of a HR team. I predict it would cause a lot of confusion to have a group labelled as HR which doesn’t do the normal things of an HR team (recruitment, talent management, training, legal compliance, compensation, sometimes payroll, etc.) but does do things that are frequently not part of a normal HR team (handle interpersonal disputes).
I don’t have any proposals for a good label, but I predict that using HR as a label would cause a lot of confusion.
While I don’t have an objection to the idea of rebranding the community health team, I want to push back a bit against labelling it as human resources.
HR already has a meaning, and there is relatively little overlap between the function of community health within the EA community and the function of a HR team. I predict it would cause a lot of confusion to have a group labelled as HR which doesn’t do the normal things of an HR team (recruitment, talent management, training, legal compliance, compensation, sometimes payroll, etc.) but does do things that are frequently not part of a normal HR team (handle interpersonal disputes).
I don’t have any proposals for a good label, but I predict that using HR as a label would cause a lot of confusion.