In any case, a good portion of the bullshittery and pretty much all of the tedious virtue-signalling that is now such a feature of modern corporate life can be laid at the security controlled access to the HR department. For the same people who modishly spend hundreds of thousands on back-to-work schemes for those who took career breaks to have kids — many of whom were from the HR department, naturally — are the same ones who spent the intervening period systematically laying off swathes of those poor buggers who had no choice but to stay on and hold the fort, and in doing so, achieved a modicum of salary progression which, nine years and precisely zero “career breaks” later, is replayed as an unconscionable advantage in the “gender wage gap”. Thanks for coming, fellas.

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