Guest Contributions: Voices from the Wider Hub Community

The Hub's writers can take you a long way, but they can't take you everywhere. Some topics need someone who has lived inside them — a recruiter who has run thousands of interviews, a researcher who has read the underlying studies, a founder who has paid the payroll. Guest contributions are how we widen the field.

What guest posts add

Specific experience is hard to fake. A team writing about engineering hiring will always sit one step behind the engineering manager who is doing it this quarter. Guest posts close that gap, and they bring a different rhythm of thinking — sharper opinions, weirder examples, sometimes uncomfortable conclusions. A piece on how data-driven recruitment can transform your business reads very differently when it's written by someone running those dashboards weekly.

A house style is good for consistency and bad for surprise. The guest section is where surprise lives.

Who we feature

We look for writers with hands-on experience, including:

Practitioners — people running the function we're writing about, from recruitment leads to compensation analysts to organisational psychologists. A practitioner essay on the role of technology in human resource management ends up sharper than anything written from a distance.

Researchers — people who can translate underlying evidence without burying readers in jargon.

Founders and operators — people who have built or run organisations and can speak to the trade-offs from inside, including the unglamorous reality of how to start a small business at home without venture funding or a team.

Specialists — people with deep knowledge of a narrow topic that the in-house team can only graze, such as an organisation development approach to consulting that brings a distinct discipline to the page.

What ties them together isn't a credential. It's the ability to show their work.

What readers can expect

Guest posts are edited for clarity, accuracy, and a basic tone of fairness. They are not edited to match the house view. You'll find takes here that contradict other articles on the Hub — that's how a good publication works. The reader is trusted to weigh. The same applies to evergreen working questions like the real benefits of outsourcing for your business, where reasonable practitioners genuinely disagree.

We label guest posts clearly and include the writer's background, so you can read with that context in mind.

How guest voices fit the Hub

Think of the Hub as a long conversation. The in-house team holds the spine. Guest contributors widen it. Together they cover more ground, with more honesty about disagreement, than either could alone.

Where to go next

Browse recent guest posts to see who's been writing and what they've been arguing about. If a piece changes how you think, that's the section doing its job.

• Eight non-monetary incentives for remote employees that work — a practitioner's take on retention when the cash lever is off the table.
• What you can do to avoid plagiarism in business — an underrated topic for any team publishing or producing content at scale.