breaker. I think I’d got used to dealing side by side with the C-suite and didn’t want anyone above me in the function. Call it pride or arrogance, but it had worked well for me and those around me. I explained all this. She was sympathetic and said she would probably have done the same. She would feed back to her opposite number at Peterborough so they could resume their search to fill that role. 8.54 p.m. I got off a call with Tanya. At our last meeting, we had agreed to invest in AI to assist our work. On the operational side, they would build a resource to give fast access to all employees’ legislative questions and were in talks with a company in California to execute it. I was already fairly advanced with my own HR tech data, particularly of AI-enabled tools of which there were plenty available and would look to have this also on the resource. I knew the market was opening up
for these and wanted to make the database as comprehensive as possible. To be fair, I was ready for the move out of employment. Clearly, there were no guarantees, but then the predictability of the situation at Four more weeks. I knew a big farewell bash had been planned for the final Friday at Northumberland Avenue, and we’d set up a committee to organise that, which did keep people’s minds off the looming separation. I’d been busy arranging insurances to replace my company benefit covers and deciding what to do about the car situation. I’d always taken the allowance and bought my own cars. That wouldn’t change! Peterborough didn’t exactly set my pulse racing! Long day, but good all the same. I can’t remember a time since I was a kid in November that I wanted a month to pass so fast!
real issue here, and one wife had elderly parents nearby. We can try all we can, but money isn’t the easy answer people think that it is. The stress of relocation is often underestimated. 4.39 p.m. Meeting with CEO over. We had discussed the revised package and the outlines of the role that was on offer; basically, it was much as I was already doing but reporting to the CHRO and acting as a deputy on occasions. The department had 6 other people, including a recruitment specialist, and the payroll function with two and a half persons was also part of the HR responsibility. Overall, I found the whole setup unappealing. Firstly, it wasn’t an advance on what I was doing now; in real terms, it was a step back, as in the current job I reported directly to the CEO, whereas there I would be at one remove. I was never a believer in payroll reporting to HR, but that wasn’t a deal-
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