At my last job we had a rule: if someone (usually a new manager) called people "resources", we called them "overhead". Ex. "I could get more people on my team

At my last job we had a rule: if someone (usually a new manager) called people "resources", we called them "overhead". Ex. "I could get more people on my team if we had less overhead". It helped that our lead Agile Coach was the main advocate of this particular approach.