Indeed, exactly as you say, people are _not_ interchangeable - we know that already since communism relied on that false premise, viewing individuals as just “m

Indeed, exactly as you say, people are _not_ interchangeable - we know that already since communism relied on that false premise, viewing individuals as just “means of production”, and utterly failed. HR as a function has increasingly become an obstacle rather than a managerial support function in recent years. Instead of personal relations with trusted, long-term people staff, employees and managers get mailing lists attended to by outsourced cheap labor call Center agents. It is CPOs’ and CEOs’ fault that they let greed cut into employee well-being that much, and of course once one company does that, all other corporations adopt the same nonsense, since they all copy playbooks.