When Recruitment, People Development and Payroll All Sit on the Same Desk In the early days of a growing business, having one HR person who can handle a bit of everything is usually an advantage. Interviewing candidates in the morning, sitting down with a manager about a team issue in the afternoon, then switching gears to check payroll numbers before month-end — that's just how it works when the company is small enough for one person to hold the whole picture in their head.