Honestly, I don't get why HR should be allowed to take such calls independently, or even be granted any independent function as such. Granted, most of my work e

Honestly, I don't get why HR should be allowed to take such calls independently, or even be granted any independent function as such. Granted, most of my work experience was at (relatively) small companies (although one was a multi-billion dollar asset manager). HR is mostly a redundant department that folks from admin and legal can and should easily do. In fact, this was exactly the case at one of my internships in Japan at a billion dollar corpo. HR has two jobs - managing the supply and outflow of talent, and preventing a bad look of the company while doing so. On both fronts, HR fails miserably, so imo they should be the ones to be axed first.