I genuinely hate how MBA-speak has been adopted seemingly everywhere. I truly, truly hate it. I understand and appreciate that we need a concise set of terminology and jargon to have conversations about these things but these words seem specifically chosen to abstract away the human quality of the humans being discussed.

Fake-smart business language is a plague. "Per" (worse: "as per"), "utilize" where "use" is more correct. All sorts of absurd euphemisms for "chat" or "meeting" or "talk". It's gross.

Well let's take this conversation offline and circle back on this topic.

That one has an actual useful definition in economics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital

The term is dehumanising and has no place in adult conversations.

Sure, and it's use should remain academic. If a manager is using "human capital" as a replacement for their actual team, there's a problem.

We've all been using the term "Human Resources" for what, like 20 years now? 30?

It's always rubbed me the wrong way. What was wrong with "Personnel"?

Yeah, to be clear, I have no issue with it’s use in macro-Econ, my issue is a C-Suite calling their employees and their specialized knowledge human capital to their faces.