…except you need to micro-manage the PIP, and it’ll probably fail on a technicality that HR will point out anyway meaning several more wasted weeks, or the employee will immediately raise a grievance that will cause even more work and stress. Five more months of crap usually.
Call them in, say...
100% this. They also have a tendency more recently to always assume the employee is ‘right’, and are terrified of taking any risks. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve had to ignore HR ‘advice’ and (with approval from my own superiors) take a different course of action when there have been issues...