For completeness, the point of this apt comment being that you don't want your employees or anyone else to be able to derive passwords en masse, so why leave th

For completeness, the point of this apt comment being that you don't want your employees or anyone else to be able to derive passwords en masse, so why leave that capability lying around; when a hash does everything that you require. (Some) hashes have also the advantage of masking the length of passwords.