Every week brings a familiar sort of email, arriving with the quiet persistence of the tide. Subject lines promising “partnership opportunities” and “content collaboration.” Offers to place sponsored articles, exchange links, or feature people management software in return for payment. We understand why they come; this is how much of the internet sustains itself, a vast ecosystem of quid pro quo dressed in the language of mutual benefit. But The People Manager does not operate this way, and never will.
We Do Not Accept Advertising
We do not publish sponsored posts, advertorials, or paid placements of any kind. We do not sell links. We do not accept payment in exchange for coverage, favourable or otherwise. When vendors appear in our reviews and comparisons — whether we are examining HR management suites, onboarding tools, or learning management systems — they appear because we chose to include them based on editorial merit and relevance to the people who read this site.
How We Work With Vendors
If your product falls within the people management and HR technology space we cover, we will find you. We initiate contact when we need clarification on pricing, access to features for hands-on testing, or answers to specific questions that surface during our research. This is how editorial independence works in practice: we decide what to cover, we decide what to say about it, and the words remain ours. It is a simple arrangement, though it seems to surprise a remarkable number of marketing departments.
Why This Policy Exists
Trust, once broken, does not reassemble neatly. People managers and HR leaders rely on our assessments to make decisions that ripple through their organisations — affecting budgets, shaping team experiences, determining whether a new hire’s first week feels like a welcome or an obstacle course. The moment commercial considerations enter the editorial process, the foundation cracks. We would rather keep this site running through affiliate commissions on products we genuinely believe in than compromise the integrity of a single review. Some things, once sold, cannot be bought back.
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