05/06/2026
Hot take: your HR team isn't too expensive. It's just being used wrong. 🙃
Most companies treat HR like a fire extinguisher - ignored until something's burning.
But here's what that quiet neglect actually costs:
💸 Bad C-suite hire? Up to 213% of their salary. Gone.
😶 Quiet quitting spreading? That's culture rot on your P&L.
📉 5% more turnover? Millions out the door before anyone notices.
In 2026, the real competitive edge isn't your tech stack, but it's who's operating it.
The smartest CEOs we talk to have stopped asking "who can we cut?" and started asking "how do we build a team that actually scales?"
That's the shift from HR as a cost center → HR as a profit engine. And it's kind of our whole thing at Ascensi. 👋
We just dropped our first article on exactly this.
Read the full breakdown here: https://www.ascensi.ro/en/blog/boardroom-strategy-pivoting-hr-from-cost-center-to-profit-engine
What's your take — is HR still seen as "back office" where you work? Let us know below! 👇