What you need to do is farm all your HR "benefits' program stuff to companies that specialize in that. Farm out your law work to a firm specializing in your broad area (sales, marketing, manufacturing, packaging, transportation, chemicals, etc).
Farm out your personnel data management to yet another firm specializing in that sort of thing, and finally hire your own accountant ~ keep him in a cage ~ feed him raw hamburger from time to time and make sure he knows how to do the budget.
You get to do all the hiring and firing. Your accountant will tell you when you need to do that.
Most don't see a problem with that.
Who should we blame if not HR?
Perhaps the mailman?