Human Resources

Hello team!
Starting today, we will enforce the following policies: Employees are no longer allowed to wear perfume at work.
Employees can no longer correct customers.
Employees are reminded that the caramel drizzle is not to be used as handwash.
Employees may no longer bring machetes to the office.

Make sure you follow these rules so we can all have a professional and friendly workplace.

— HR Department

Never has a department been so aptly named without realizing it, because humans are just another resource and it falls to HR to manage them. In the Old World, before Megacorpolis, there were legal obligations too: things like harressment, discrimination, not blatantly exploiting your workers. Fortunately, those days are far behind us, and the Human Resources have a much freer hand in dealing with managing their resources. These days, much of an HR specialist day is dedicated to surveillance, 'morale management', gaslighting people, and generally making sure employees don't get any funny ideas.
They're the ones who'll organize corporate events, games and "fun" around the office, and all the other things that they are convinced will make the employees love both the corporation and them. After all, who doesn't love free pizza?
To that end, HR department still maintain the old kayfabe about being there for the employees, and not just another instrument of the corporation to screw them over. Some employees even believe it, although when the chips are down and there's an actual corp vs. employee issue, HR will take the side of the corp every single time. Complaints and reports sent to them are tallied and tracked, but more to keep an eye on the whiner than anything they might have a complaint about. "You're too negative" is a phrase wielded like a bludgeon to batter unhappy employees into submission.
In the end, not much has actually changed except how much power the HR departments have to make your life absolutely miserable.