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Does anyone care about HR?

A developer building new HR technology questions whether founders and CEOs truly value the HR function, noting that HR only became measurable about 10 years ago and now faces AI and automation, and asks if HR can truly sit at the table. The post, shared on Hacker News, reflects uncertainty about the perceived importance of HR tech in the current landscape.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 19, 2026

| |||||||||||| 1 point by | I am working on some HR tech that doesn't really exist today, but does HR matter? I mean it was just 10 years ago when HR was just starting to be measurable, not we have AI, automation, etc. But do founders, CEO's etc. truly care about the function? Is it possible for HR to truly sit at the table? | ||||||||||| |

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