Corporate garbage-speak.
The few corporate jobs I've had over the years invariably drove me crazy. The inescapable pressure to conform to a particular corporate culture is relentless, even when disguised in employee-friendly language.
The change of "Personnel" to "Human Resources" is one of my oldest pet peeves. When did that actually happen, anyway? In the '80's? It seemed that, all of a sudden, every Personnel Department in the country became "Human Resources." In our capitalistic society, resources exist to be exploited. I'll bet that makes you feel valued as an employee!
At present, I work for a corporate entity that's all in for employee-lulling gobbledygook. (They bought out the small company I had been working for, which really was family-like and employee friendly.) The Personnel Department is called "Talent and Culture," and "transparency and accountability" are major objectives. The latter part is mostly for lower-level employees, of course, who are assigned "tasks" via an app, must enter the time it took to complete said tasks (in addition to the usual timeclock punches), and must mark them completed. Many of these also require a photo attached, showing the completed task. It doesn't improve the quality of the work, the skill or efficiency of workers and their methods, or anything else; it just adds another layer of poorly cloaked surveillance and control.
I realize that the larger any organization gets, the more structure it needs to function effectively, and that's not unreasonable. A lot of the stuff now, however, is just bullshit elevated to an absurd level of CYA, self-aggrandizement, and exploitation, masquerading as some kind of New-Agey, noble purpose; all the while, though, it's nothing but a manufactured veneer to hide their fakery. I hate it the same way I hated the stupidly awful, everyone-must-cheer, rah-rah "pep rallies" we were forced to attend every morning at one job I suffered through (briefly, thank goodness).
This article lays it all out. An excellent read.
Why do corporations speak the way they do?
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I work in higher ed (university level) and can verify that garbage language has infected our administrative 'resources' as well.
And well stated. My company even came out during the past year with two -- two! -- lists, entitled "Nomenclature Changes," that mandated new terms for existing functions, positions, departments, etc., and they were as just stupid and redundant as you can imagine.
Your last paragraph says it all!
That is bad. This has interesting sociological implications.
My sympathies for your having to endure that. It looks like a top down language game if it is that prevalent. One wonders if this will continue and for how long. It might get rather messy. Oh, the algorithms and androids will fix that when they replace those positions. 
Oh and, ++Good. At least choco rations are up and the war with Eastasia is going well.
For one thing, I'll be retiring within the year and ditching the corporate bullshit game completely. Can't wait!
Awesome ++Good about the choco rations going up, of course, but still find the war with Eastasia disheartening.
Don't tell anyone I said that last bit! 
