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The problem is not just money and resources. The growth of HR in today’s cultural climate tends not to be a neutral act. It comes with the baggage of political ideology, if we are honest about it. Civic Future has explained that HR has moved from responding to an organisation’s needs to shaping them. We need to be careful what we wish for here. The aim might be to reduce discrimination, but often it is just a green light for increasing discrimination complaints, claims and even lawsuits. Data from employment tribunals show that there has been a significant rise in cases brought using the Equality Act during the 2020s compared to the 2010s. That is proof not that discrimination is being tackled but that overzealous organisations, acting either because they have these HR people in or because some regulator is breathing down their neck, get it wrong.