Ask HN: Psychologists in modern companies. Do many have them and if not, why?

2 points by beyondcompute 10y ago ↗ HN

That's been puzzling me for some time. From the experience of being in tech industry for about 10 years, I have an impression that significant part of all "problems" teams experiencing are communication issues. Yet when I propose something like say, "You noticed that 60% of our problems are communication. Let's have a person for 'debugging' those, i.e. HR/Psychologist", people just ignore the idea as if it wasn't there. That's so wasteful in my opinion. Are other readers of HN experiencing similar situation? Do you have a person to whom you can talk about communication issues at your workplace? If yes, has it proven to be effective? Thank you.

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RobBollons 10y ago ↗

I've been working for my current company who specializes in HR software for about 6 years now and from what i see both introspectively and from our clients, most communication issues are a result of a poor corporate structure and/or culture. Having a HR person/psychologist will likely only address the symptoms rather than the problem itself. But i do totally see where you're coming from. I did a bit of side-study into psychology and it seems like business execs could benefit hugely from involving dedicated Psychologists into business decision making (including HR).