Any HR people? Role change advice

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Due To speak to HR this week. My role is changing, think five roles absorbed into four (as one person has resigned) with a new job title for the remaining four.

I’ll go from managing four people to 17, and my role focus will change a lot. Not completely, but it will be very different, certainly not what I applied for. my original role is no more it seems.

should our roles be made redundant here? And then the new roles opened up to all who want to apply? It’s not clear what’s happening at the moment, I’d just like to understand what the norm should be.

Are you wanting to do one of the other roles?

Hi OP. Job descriptions are not usually legally binding (unlike employment contracts which are) so employers are able to make changes to your role and job description without making the position redundant.

What is important is that the changes should be due to a valid business reason (absorbing the work of an employee that has left between the rest of the team would normally fall under the valid business case) and that the reason for the change is discussed with you and explained to you, which it sounds like it has been.

It is worth talking things through with your employer and pushing for an increase in your salary if you are managing significantly more people. What is their plan given a lot more of your time will be taken up with line management? Exactly how different is the new role? That is a key thing I'd want to know in your shoes. I would say that managing a team of 17 is a lot, it's not unheard of but that is an awful lot of performance reviews for example. From my experience it is rare for managers of so many people to do a successful job at managing if they also have their own day job so to speak.

@EmotionalSupportPotato It’s a role I have done in the past at other companies. However, I would not choose to do it here.

Thanks for the considered and helpful reply @GameOfJones thats really useful. Pay rise is what I’m looking for now, and also how on earth I manage workload for the job I already can’t do in my working hours along with absorbing all those people (a number of who are on PIPs etc). I’d ideally want to introduce a management layer beneath me, but the exec are against this at the moment.

It’s definitely a valid business reason, I do accept that, but its a real move from the specific role I was recruited to do. The company I work for are notorious for rushing into ill thought out changes, I won’t be able to avoid it I don’t think, but really useful to know that all legally ok to do this.

Thanks again!