[Kranar]

Not having an HR department doesn't mean you don't have HR and no one is claiming that. The entire point is that you don't need a department to do those things and the argument presented here is that those responsibilities are left integrated within a team rather than compartmentalized into a separate and independent system.

[dogma1138]

That’s exactly how HR departments formed... you can distribute their functionality across the company and guess what it will cause issues that would lead to an HR department forming.