“Companies exist for HR. Somehow HR has developed the mentality that they are the Heart and Soul of a company.”
Actually, to a degree this is true.
But...
The purpose of a modern HR department is to protect the management from the employees.
The layoff’s of the 2000’s destroyed employee loyalty. HR rules and regulations took it’s place.
HR is of the mistaken impression that the workplace should or could solve everyone’s problems and provide social justice. That mentality came to be with company provided health insurance and retirement plans. Now that company provided health insurance is it’s death throws and new attacks on matching in 401’s we may see an upheaval not widely anticipated.