HR vs. People Operations:
What’s the Difference?
HR and People Operations: foundation 🤝 future.
Traditional HR lays the groundwork of your people —think compliance, payroll, and policies. It’s essential for protecting your business and supporting your team’s basic needs.
People Operations takes it further. It’s a more modern, strategic approach that puts people at the center of business decisions—shaping culture, growing talent, and aligning employee experience with your goals.
I chose “HR” in Sonder’s name because it is familiar. But what our partnership will deliver goes beyond the traditional—we focus on building people-first systems that power high-performing businesses.
sonder
(n)
The profound realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own, populated with their own ambitions, relationships, routines, worries, and inherited craziness.
At Sonder HR, I partner with each business with the explicit understanding it is a living, complex organism with its own story and unique needs.