[spacko]

Maybe HR tends to complicate the process to expand its power and justify its existence.

There is this "law" that proclaims this is what happens in bureaucratic organisations - hierarchies tend to be grown for that purpose.

[dublinben]

This seems highly related to Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bu...

[analog31]

Parkinson's Law -- an amusing read, even if quaint. The same book also gave rise to the contemporary term "bikeshedding."

[spacko]

Parkinson's Law states that work is expanded to fill the available time. The law I refer to is that the time itself with work to be filled is expanded - for the purpose of requiring more human and non-human resources - which again requires expanding the hierarchy - which expands the power of those who cause this process (as the newly hired people will be added below those "managers").

[analog31]

Quite true. I should have italicized Parkinson's Law, the book. Parkinson spends a number of short chapters discussing the expansion of hierarchies, with historical examples.

[walshemj]

Exactly read the laundry files