I agree. HR gets the shit end of the stick but competent HR at my workplace has allowed us to avoid litigation, find and manage various government grants for hiring employees across different countries, research and implement our work VISA requirements for when we get transferred to different offices, manage and analyze employee satisfaction surveys and a whole slew of other tasks that I wouldn't want to have done myself.

I also recognize my IT staff for all the hard work they do. I do part time admin work on some of the systems related to our SQL Server infrastructure but they handle the brunt of it such as scheduling and executing patching of all server environments usually at 4am on a Sunday morning to minimize down time.

I used to have to handle end to end development for our reporting/data warehouse infrastructure. This included PM work, requirements gathering, design, development and even QA. When I approached my VP and asked for him to delegate those PM duties to one of our existing PM's, my world got a whole easier. Instead of managing timelines and meetings with dozens of stakeholders across 4 continents every month, I'm able to focus on getting other work done. I've actually been able to deploy much more frequently and higher quality builds as well with time left over to experiment or read up on new features of the various development tools I use.

Edit: I don't have kind words for our strategic management team though as they have been in and out of the news for various stupidity and we've tracked their blunders over the years which have probably cost our firm a fuck ton of money. But hey, getting paid is pretty cool.