Creativity suffocated by managerialism and HR

Shelly Gare’s analysis of the rise of Human Resources and managerialism is spot on and it’s what we have seen in our industry.

“One moment, there was a pleasant, greying man in a cardigan in Personnel, dealing efficiently with everything from annual leave to hirings, doing it all with maybe one assistant, so that we, workers and bosses, could get on with our jobs,” she writes for News Weekly. 

“The next minute, there were huge carpeted departments of Human Resources people… briskly handing out forms to be filled in and brusquely telling us how to do our jobs.”

Read the full article here.