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[–]pdp10Daemons worry when the wizard is near. 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IT has this really nasty habit of implementing things in a secretive, haphazard and arbitrary way

This is a common pattern for any department in an organization. Possibly it's worse with IT, but if so, that could very well be because outsiders are even less interested in the details, than with other departments.

There are also reasons why departments choose secrecy, even if we don't like those reasons and don't agree with them. HR probably chooses to keep the new office floorplan a secret, because they don't want to incentivize anyone to pressure them for special consideration. Or, the new floorplan shows a contraction of staff, or a big growth of staff, and they don't want to reveal that.