It's left hand not talking to the right. The HR people put the system in place as a way of promoting equality, hiring more easily and generally doing a decent t

It's left hand not talking to the right. The HR people put the system in place as a way of promoting equality, hiring more easily and generally doing a decent thing. Individual managers of teams, with fixed budgets, high workloads and bonus targets around completing those workloads are probably not internally compensated for the cost of HR's policy, thus they look for ways to get rid of such people.