Human Resources is not a revenue producing department of a company. Instead, benefits are an expense for a company and costs are always being monitored. Therefore, I contributed to a cost center. I recall being mindful of the budget for our department to ensure we did not have an unfavorable balance for our accounts. I also recall discussing ways to cut costs while not playing the "spend it or lose it" game. I contributed by moving processes that were once very manual and required a lot of paper and postage, to digital processes that were faster and used pdf documents and email. This saved time and money as we strived to become more efficient and offer broader services to employees. One of the downsides of working for a cost center such as HR is that it is often top of mind when job cuts are being considered. I saw this a lot in my time in this position, while revenue producing departments were not as impacted by layoffs. We learned to work as a small but efficient team, not only for the benefit of the company, but to maintain our jobs. How respond to this