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confiding in one person or the other, but you should be careful what
you say so you don't shoot yourself in the foot. It is now confirmed
that there are just some things about you that "HR doesn't want to
know".
According to Susan M. Heathfield, a Human Resources Expert,
"Before you share a secret about yourself with HR at your workplace,
know your HR staff:
In too many workplaces, these are the ten things that you should never
share with HR.
10 Things Never to Share with HR
1) You participate in some activity that is illegal even if it takes
place totally outside of work. Your HR person may feel compelled to do
something or say something about it. HR doesn't want to make a
decision about whether he or she is legally obligated to report you to
the police. And, it will deeply affect their opinion of you and your
place in your organization.
2)You are considering whether to be a full time mum while on your
maternity leave.
The key is that HR will make decisions deemed in the best interests of
the employer if they are uncertain about your reliability or
commitment. Don't give them the information that makes them feel they
need to make decisions – that may be adverse for you.
3) You need favorable treatment, time off, privileges from the company
because of an event that isn't true. It will always come back to haunt
you.
4) You lied about something during the hiring or interview process
before you were offered the job.
Companies need to be consistent in their practices, so if your
organization has that policy, no matter how much you are valued or
liked, you may find yourself without a job. The best advice? Never lie
during the hiring process by omission or commission. You don't want to
spend the next ten years at work trying to cover up your untruths.
But, never tell HR if you did.
5)Your significant other, partner or spouse might be transferred to a
job in another city that is not commutable from the current location.
This is more career busting than telling your employer that you are
job searching, because the employer will perceive that you have less
control over the outcome. (And you know to never tell HR that you are
job searching outside of your company. While you may think telling HR
will help improve your job or company, the time to encourage and
participate in improvement is before you've started looking.)
6) You are moonlighting in a second job if your current job is full
time. When you tell HR that you are working a second job, you
communicate all sorts of messages that you may not mean. The result?
HR wonders about your commitment to the company.
7) You sued your former employer for harassment, ADA accommodation, or
civil rights violations. HR departments live in fear of lawsuits -
even the good, ethical, painstakingly fair departments.
So, you have nothing to gain but suspicion from letting HR staff know
about any previous lawsuits. HR staff also regards the fact that you
share this information with them as potentially threatening to them
and your employer. If you're job searching, even though it's illegal,
employers do discriminate (secretly) when they know that you have sued
employers in the past.
8) You have medical issues that might cause disruption to the
workplace flow when you need to take time off, go on disability, or
seek extensive medical treatment. If you share your medical condition
or information in too much detail, you may find that your employer
begins to work around you as if you are not there. The employer is
trying to protect their productivity, profitability, and work load;
your absences would adversely affect the workplace.
9) You received a DWI or DUI or where arrested for crimes such as
fraud, tax evasion, stealing...
Yes, I know, activities and events that occur outside of the workplace
are your own personal business and should be separate from decision
making at work. So, keep them that way.
Unless an event threatens to flow over into your work place - in which
case, always tell HR before they are blindsided - your personal
business is private. But, if you drive a company vehicle for business
and you received a DUI, best come clean. If you work in the accounting
department and you were just charged with embezzling thousands of
dollars from your church, you risk a lot either by telling or not
telling. Know your company, but I am an advocate for truth.
Employers are smart also to do comprehensive background checks. If
you're applying for a job, if you have a felony on your record, reveal
it when asked on the application.
10) Your personal life, in general, is in a shambles. Items like, you
are afraid of your stalker ex-boyfriend, you filed a lawsuit against
your neighbor, or you haven't spoken to your sister in five years,
don't belong at work. They consciously or unconsciously cloud the
workplace opinion about you as a person. These conclusions can
adversely affect your career and opportunities. And, the employer
making decisions may never recognize that he or she is making
decisions about you based on what is known about your personal life.
Don't give your employer any more information than is necessary for a
friendly, cohesive, team oriented workplace. Trust me. There are
really many pieces of information that HR doesn't want to know. (My
caveat: something that threatens to flow over into work or the
workplace should be shared with HR. For example, the stalker
ex-boyfriend who used to mock you on Facebook and on your cell phone,
but has now started to show up at places where you are, should be
shared as a potential workplace safety issue.)
No matter how good and competent you think your HR department is, all
of these ten things provide information that you should keep to
yourself. Play by the same rules as professional HR departments. If it
didn't happen here, and it won't affect your current work or
workplace, keep the information where it belongs - home. To echo so
many of my colleagues in HR, I just don't want to know all of this."
http://humanresources.about.com/od/HR-Roles-And-Responsibilities/a/10-things-you-should-never-tell-hr.htm?nl=1


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