2. HR departments and poor managers making busywork to justify their existence.
^^^^ this so much!
Most HR departments desperately want to appear to be profit centres instead of the cost centres they actually are.
For example, the constant, continuous, process of eternally rolling out new terrible HR systems.
Or the latest set of CBT quizzes on corporate wrong think that come across like a Break Room session from Severance.
They need the constant set of campaigns to justify their place in the organisation but it's all just busy work.
2. HR departments and poor managers making busywork to justify their existence.