Reminder: In large corporations, HR is mostly just a "people risk" department. People are a necessary input, and with them comes all sorts of risk. It is the HR

Reminder: In large corporations, HR is mostly just a "people risk" department. People are a necessary input, and with them comes all sorts of risk. It is the HR departments job to advise and manage that risk both in general via policy and specifically from case to case. Once you understand HR like that it makes a lot more sense.