Republishing
Running an hr.cafe story in your newsletter, intranet or publication: what is allowed and how to ask.
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Draft pending review. This plain-language draft describes how the site is built to work today. It will be reviewed and finalized before the publication launches with real contributors.
What you can do without asking
- Link to any story. Always, anywhere.
- Quote a short extract — a paragraph or so — with the author’s name and a link.
- Share it internally by link in a team channel or newsletter.
- Subscribe to the RSS feed and read it in any reader.
What needs permission
- Republishing a story in full, anywhere.
- Reproducing it inside a paid product, course or report.
- Translating it.
- Anything implying the author or hr.cafe endorses you.
Because the author owns the story, permission is theirs to give. Email editors@hr.cafe with the story and where it would run; we ask the author and come back to you.
If permission is given
- Credit the author by name, with their role context, and hr.cafe as the original publication.
- Link to the original in the first or last paragraph.
- Set your canonical tag to the hr.cafe URL, so the original stays the reference copy.
- Do not edit the substance. House-style tweaks are fine; changing what the author said is not.
- Do not place it beside advertising that implies the author endorses a product.
- Honor withdrawal. If the author withdraws the story, please take your copy down too.
On canonicals, honestly
Google describes canonical annotations as a signal it takes into account, not a guarantee of which URL is selected. Anyone promising you a ranking outcome from syndication is guessing.