> HR at one point sent out a series of long emails about a big change upcoming, but they didn't / would not say what the change was, it put a lot of people on edge. Then finally after the 5th or so email they announced that after HR spent thousands of hours in meetings and off site meetings ... they were renaming HR... that was it... it was like a joke, but they were serious. CEO and all the other executives of course had to reply all to congratulate them.

Sounds like something else was planned, and they pulled out last minute.

Or they were trying to spook 5% into leaving -- and did -- so they make some trivial change that means nothing and can be undone later.