MRR is just a way to get rid of people, the goal is higher paid people out and replace with new people at lower pay if needed. They don't want a individual contributor to stay in the same job 15-20 years anymore. You can be in a group where everyone does a lot of work and is knowledgeable; someone still has to be on the bottom. This can be hard on the manager too as could be a decent person told to do something that doesn't seem right.
Regarding HR being outsourced, I thought most of it already was. I was laid off 18 months ago and at my out brief meeting I was with a young manager who was doing his first ever layoff, was nervous and wasn't sure what to do and a HR person who was from an outsource group (non Honeywell badge), was new to Honeywell (like a few weeks) and was walking me through the legal forms I had to sign. His was instructed to show me the 1-800 number to call for any question I had. I applied for a few jobs the last few years and the HR person working it was always a temp.