In my limited experience HR seems structured to give unintelligent, incompetent brainwashed “minority” leftists the power to destroy a company they could never have even imagined much less built.
I’ve never seen an HR dept. with any real authority, and I’ve seen them overruled multiple times by the people that make money for the company.
The fact that it isn’t a revenue generator probably consigns them to a back seat in many discussions.