The Sifted panel highlights a genuine tension, but the analysis arguably glosses over the inherent conflict of merging these historically distinct domains. Framing this as a natural 'assembly' of HR and finance downplays the turf war likely brewing over who owns the 'capacity' calculus—a fundamentally financial equation now applied to human talent. While the shift from productivity to capacity sounds strategic, in practice it may simply become a new, more sophisticated justification for hiring freezes, dressed in the language of efficiency. The next phase to watch is whether 'capacity planning' becomes a new C-suite role or a contested battleground that leaves both functions weakened.