{"id":3914,"date":"2026-06-15T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.headtohead.ch\/inhuman-resources\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:41:47","slug":"inhuman-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.headtohead.ch\/en\/inhuman-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Inhuman Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3914\" class=\"elementor elementor-3914 elementor-3902\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-36dcea06 cspt-col-stretched-none cspt-bg-color-over-image elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"36dcea06\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a0569d7 cspt-bg-color-over-image\" data-id=\"6a0569d7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32f90109 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"32f90109\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>Many years ago, while working in a large corporation, a frustrated executive shouted at HR during a management meeting: &#8220;Your department should be called the inhuman resources department!&#8221;<br \/><br \/><\/div><div>That moment planted a question that has only grown more relevant since. Two reasons keep bringing it back.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>First, in a period of almost weekly layoff announcements, doesn&#8217;t the word &#8220;resources&#8221; already carry, from the very start, a propensity to disposability? Second, in the era of AI, an era where a system screens candidates, drafts communications, manages schedules, and advises on strategy, isn&#8217;t the word &#8220;inhuman&#8221; actually quite accurate?<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>Moreover, a quiet but persistent tension has haunted HR for more than sixty years: are organisations managing Human Resources, or nurturing Human Relations? Same acronym, quite a different viewpoint. That debate, first framed by Raymond Miles in the Harvard Business Review in 1965, has never been fully resolved. But something more unsettling has now arrived: a multifaceted new colleague that has never been interviewed, onboarded, or assessed for values alignment.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>Marco Mancesti has spent two decades at the intersection of strategy, leadership, and organisational dynamics. What this article asks, directly and without irony, is whether organisations need not just a reinvented HR, but a genuinely separate governance function, an Inhuman Resources department. Not as a dark joke. 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