[Core] How do you handle being seen as “HR” before employees fully trust you?

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I try not to take that personally, because a lot of employees come into HR conversations carrying assumptions from prior experiences, stories from coworkers, or uncertainty about what HR is going to do with the information they share. If I react defensively, I usually make the trust gap worse...

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