Comment by atty

This is pretty tangential, but my company just rolled out a new HR system. I don’t like the term Human Resources very much, because it implies a level of fungibity that isn’t really true, but the new one is simply astounding - they call it the “human capital management system”. I was awe struck that anyone thought calling employees “human capital” was at all acceptable, going from implied fungibility to full on “you are a replaceable cog in the machine”. I imagine the PM on that one got an MBA from a place that taught that management and labor need to be in a constant struggle because workers are greedy and lazy.