Right; mine definitely is. I just don’t hear friends/acquaintances mention HR except in the scenarios I described (running seminars - sometimes politically tinged - that aren’t to force anything down someone’s throat so much as to show the company did its due diligence in protecting employees). If there is any doubt, look at how meticulous they are in documenting attendance; it is given far more focus than examining whether anyone actually learned anything.
Yes, HR does meticulously document attendance at their useless (or worse) training sessions. The content of those sessions, in my experience and what I have heard described, is hard-core leftist woke-ism, and it poisons the company. To the extent that HR is able to control hiring and promotion, “Diversity Inclusion and Equity “ (DIE) is their first, last, only priority. Competence is irrelevant. I suspect that the phenomenon is worse in some industries than in others.