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HR managers' responsibility burden and emotional demands are the biggest factors in the role's mental health hazard exposure, according to new research on psychosocial risks.

Given the HR function is responsible for identifying and controlling psychosocial hazards, it becomes "both the risk manager and a risk carrier", Clearhead founder and CEO Dr Angela Lim tells HR Daily.

"[T]he HR team also sits more than a third above the average occupation on emotional demands at every level," Lim says.

And this proportion of HR's workload will likely only grow as AI automates technical tasks, leaving "the complex emotional layer of people management for HR teams to manage", she warns...