A short YouTube conversational clip (host Chrissy Myers + guest) arguing that even very small businesses—particularly family-run ones—need HR support. The guest states a core claim: "If you have an employee, you need HR support," and the discussion challenges misconceptions that small size negates the need for HR. More detailed examples/justifications likely appear later in the video.
So let's talk about that. Stepping out and kind of looking at things. So there's a lot of small business owners, I think, that believe they're not big enough for hr. Like, we don't need HR support. So what would you say to that?
I would say if you have an employee, you need HR support. I agree. And especially if it's family.
What do you mean?
Everybody gets along in a family business. Sure they do. I think that what business owners forget and interestingly, one of the things that. That business owners really seem to have a hard time with is employee handbooks. That's a sticking point. They feel like if they have an employee handbook now, they've got all these rules that they have to follow too, and they don't have the freedom to run their organization the way they'd like. And then the other piece of that is they think it's written in stone like it's non. It can never be changed. And I tell employers, your employee handbook is a guideline. It helps employees understand the organization and what your expectations are. But it's ever changing. It's a living document. And anything that's not working for your organization, we can simply change. It's that easy. So employers tend to get themselves worked up about a lot of things that really aren't that difficult. We.
