# How to run people ops in three hours a week

Description: For a 10-50 person team, people operations is a handful of recurring workflows, not a full-time job. This article explains the system that keeps people ops to a weekly block.

URL: https://anti-hr.com/blog/people-ops-three-hours-a-week

The article argues that small-company people operations is mostly five recurring jobs:

1. Payroll is right and on time.
2. Leave is tracked.
3. Joiners start clean and leavers leave clean.
4. One source of truth exists for employee data.
5. Deadlines do not ambush the founder.

Recommended operating system:

- One front door for every request.
- One source of truth, such as Personio, HiBob, BambooHR, Deel, or another HRIS.
- Templates for onboarding, offboarding, payroll changes, and employment letters.
- A weekly operating block for non-urgent people-ops work.
- A deadline calendar for payroll cut-offs, probation reviews, renewals, and filings.

ANTI/HR's position: a small team does not necessarily need a full People function. It needs recurring workflows, a clean source of truth, and humans in the loop for decisions involving money, law, medicine, or employment status.