Someone has benefited from all those human resources departments getting ideas above their station and wanting to become “strategic” and to deal with the “personal development” of the rest of the people in their company who actually earn the money.
The personnel department as was once looked after the bread and butter of workers’ needs. It made sure they got paid on time and, with luck, the correct amount. And when those members of staff decided they’d had it because the pay was not good enough or because they really could not stand another day with the boss, personnel would step in to provide the black bin liner and get on with the recruitment of a replacement.
Now that they are called human resources executives,