From Gut Feeling to Evidence: Data Literacy and People Analytics
For much of its history, HR relied heavily on experience and intuition. Today, the same digital tools that run remote work also generate a steady stream of data about how organisations function. The ability to read that data — and, just as importantly, to question it — is fast becoming essential to the profession. What […]
Protecting People: Digital Wellbeing and the Right to Disconnect
Remote work offers freedom, but it carries a hidden cost. When the workplace lives on a laptop, the line between work and life can dissolve. Protecting employee wellbeing — and helping people genuinely switch off — has become one of the most important responsibilities in remote HR. The “always on” problem Without the natural boundary […]
Hiring Without Borders: Recruitment and Onboarding in Remote HR
The first impression an employee forms of an organisation now often happens entirely on a screen. Recruitment and onboarding — the front door of the employee lifecycle — have been reshaped by remote work, and remote HR professionals need to design these moments with real care. Get them right, and people arrive engaged and ready; […]
Remote Work as an Equaliser: Opening HR Careers to Women
At the heart of RemoteHeR is a conviction that remote work, done well, can help level a playing field that has long been uneven. The project’s full name — Empowering Women for Digital & Remote HR Careers — places this goal front and centre. The evidence for why it is needed is stark. Women remain […]
Holding Teams Together: Culture and Engagement at a Distance
Organisational culture used to be something people absorbed almost by osmosis — in shared lunches, hallway conversations and the unspoken norms of a physical workplace. When teams are distributed, culture no longer happens by accident. It has to be built on purpose, and that responsibility often lands with HR. This is one of the hardest […]
Digital Competence in HR: Applying the EU DigComp Framework
When we talk about “digital skills”, it helps to have a shared reference point. Across Europe, that reference is DigComp — the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens, now in version 2.2. It describes what it means to be digitally competent in everyday life and work, and it offers a remarkably useful lens for understanding […]
AI in Human Resources: Promise, Pitfalls and Responsible Practice
Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into the HR toolkit — screening applications, suggesting training, analysing engagement and answering routine employee questions. For remote HR, where so much already happens through software, AI is both a powerful ally and a source of real risk. Using it well is fast becoming a core professional competence rather than […]
The Skills That Define a Remote HR Professional
If remote HR is a distinct discipline, what exactly does it require of the people who practise it? Through its research, the RemoteHeR project is mapping the competences that separate a capable office HR practitioner from one who can lead effectively at a distance. They fall into four connected groups — and, crucially, they can […]
The Rules of Remote Work: Legal and Ethical Foundations
Remote work crosses lines that office work rarely did — between home and workplace, between countries, and between an employer’s interests and an employee’s privacy. Navigating these lines is a defining challenge of remote HR, and it rests on a foundation of law and ethics that every practitioner should understand. The point is not to […]
What Is Remote HR? Defining a New Discipline
Human Resources has always been about people — how organisations attract, develop and care for the individuals who make them work. What has changed is the distance across which that relationship now plays out. Remote HR is the practice of managing the full employee lifecycle when teams are distributed across cities, countries and time zones, […]