Which is fine. But no one cares to humor the notion of a link between the lack of accountability for individuals within companies, when wrongdoing is apparent, with the way we scrub individuals from company interaction with the public? I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that the way we talk about companies influences how we regard and treat them.

We do the same for all groups of people, not just companies. And the conventions aren't much different in other languages.

When we do, it's largely for the negative purposes of extending blame to all within a group, not obfuscate or diffuse blame, as is the case here.