Editorial Policy

RemNavi is published by DField Kft. (Cg. 13-09-242182, Tax ID HU32876217), a Hungarian limited-liability company based in Dunakeszi. The publisher carries the legal, financial, and reputational accountability for everything published on the site.

Editorial output is produced under the banner of RemNavi Editorial, a functional division of the publisher. Individual contributors are not bylined on aggregate data products (Market Index, Salary Index, Real Remote Score). Skill guides and cornerstone articles carry a "RemNavi Editorial" byline. The publisher is the accountable party in all cases.

Formal correspondence — legal notices, regulatory requests, rights-holder notices — should be directed to the registered address above or to editorial@remnavi.com.

The one paid product on RemNavi is Featured Listings: employer-sponsored placement of a listing on category or skill hubs. Featured placement is governed by the following strict rules:

• Featured placement does not alter the Real Remote Score of any listing.
• Featured placement does not remove or obscure the Real Remote Score from display.
• Featured placement does not affect ordering inside ranked editorial views — Market Index tables, the Transparency Leaderboard, RRS Checker results, or any salary cut.
• Every Featured unit is labelled "Featured" in the user interface.
• Commercial staff cannot see unpublished editorial output, cannot request changes to drafts, and cannot delay publication of editorial findings that involve paying customers.
• No individual employer, Featured or otherwise, has any veto, preview, or pre-publication review over Market Index issues, correction decisions, or score changes.

The publisher is responsible for maintaining this separation. Breach of separation is grounds for retraction under §8.

The Real Remote Score rubric is versioned. The current version and the full version history are published on /real-remote-score-methodology/. Weights, pillar definitions, and scoring clauses are in that document.

A change to the rubric is only applied if all of the following are true:

• The change is logged in the public version history with a before/after description.
• The version number is incremented (semantic: major for pillar/weight changes, minor for clarifications).
• The change is not applied retroactively to historical Market Index issues — published issues remain frozen to the rubric version they were audited under.
• If the change would materially shift reported market-wide statistics by more than 2 percentage points, a migration note is included in the next Market Index issue.

The same versioning discipline applies to this editorial policy. Edits beyond typo correction carry a policy version bump and are announced in the next Market Index issue.

A material error is any published statement of fact that, if believed, would change a reader's understanding of the audit result — incorrect score, incorrect dataset statistic, incorrect company attribution, incorrect date, incorrect rubric application.

When a material error is identified, we:

• Correct the error in place on the affected page.
• Add a dated Corrections section at the foot of the affected page that states what was originally published, what was corrected, and when.
• Do not silently edit. Silent edits to dated editorial output are prohibited.
• If the affected page is a numbered Market Index issue, the issue's version number is bumped (e.g. 2026-Q2 v1 → v1.1) and the change is linked from the homepage of the Market Index parent index for at least 30 days.

Non-material edits — typo fixes, broken-link repairs, design-only changes — are made without a correction note. The distinction is explicit, not judgemental.

Any employer may request re-audit of any listing associated with their own careers page, at any time, free of charge. The procedure is:

1. Request. Email editorial@remnavi.com with the listing URL and the specific rubric pillar(s) being challenged. A request without the listing URL cannot be actioned.
2. Re-application. RemNavi Editorial re-runs the current rubric version against the current live listing text and confirms the result.
3. Outcome — score was wrong. Score is corrected under §4. A correction note is added. No charge.
4. Outcome — score was correct. The rubric clauses that produced the result are cited in the response. Where the listing could score higher under the same rubric, the specific changes to the listing text that would raise the score are identified. The score is not changed to match the employer's preferred score; preference is not grounds for re-scoring.
5. Escalation. If the employer disputes the re-audit result, the dispute may be escalated to the publisher for final review. The publisher's decision is final and is logged internally.

Bulk appeals, appeals routed through PR agencies, and appeals that include compensation offers are logged and trigger an automatic COI disclosure in the next Market Index issue. The request is still processed on its merits.

Numbered Market Index issues are occasionally distributed under embargo — typically 48–72 hours ahead of public release — to a small list of journalists and researchers at outlets we have a working relationship with.

• Embargoed material is shared in writing with an explicit embargo date and time (UTC).
• Sharing embargoed material with a third party, or publishing before the embargo lifts, results in removal from future distribution.
• We do not maintain retaliatory public lists of embargo breakers; we simply stop sending.
• The pre-release distribution list is not a commercial product. It is not tied to advertising, sponsorship, or any commercial benefit from RemNavi to the receiving outlet.

Every commercial relationship the publisher holds that could, under any reading, influence the audit is disclosed below. This list is maintained current.

• Featured Listings: the one product that links editorial output (Real Remote Score display) to paying customers. Separation rules in §2 apply.
• No EOR, payroll, or hiring-platform affiliate revenue. RemNavi does not accept affiliate payouts, revenue share, referral bonuses, or any other fee from Employer-of-Record providers, payroll platforms, HRIS vendors, ATS vendors, or hiring tools for traffic, mentions, reviews, or comparisons.
• No candidate-side revenue. RemNavi does not sell premium accounts, CV storage, candidate matching, or any candidate-facing paid feature. No candidate data is held or brokered.
• No sponsored content. Market Index issues, guides, and cornerstone articles are not sponsored and do not accept sponsorship. Commercial brand partnerships, if ever introduced, will be labelled on the page and disclosed here.
• DField cross-company context. DField Kft. operates three divisions (Solutions, Systems, Contents). RemNavi sits under Contents. The Solutions division that built RemNavi (dfieldsolutions.com) does not influence editorial; the Systems division (dfieldsystems.com) is in a different market. Any future commercial relationship between RemNavi and another DField division that could influence editorial will be disclosed here.

An employer holding a Featured Listing at the time of a Market Index issue covering their listing will be disclosed in that issue.

A published Market Index issue is retracted — not merely corrected — if any of the following occur:

• A material portion of the dataset is found to be invalid, making the aggregate findings unreliable.
• A breach of §2 (editorial independence from commercial) is identified in the production of the issue.
• A regulatory or legal requirement compels withdrawal.

A retracted issue remains at its original URL with the content replaced by a retraction notice explaining why it was retracted and the date of retraction. The original content is not silently removed from the archive; the retraction is part of the public record.

Retraction is rare by design. Correction under §4 is the default remedy for most errors.

RemNavi is operated with heavy use of AI tooling. This section states specifically what AI does and does not touch in our editorial pipeline.

AI is used for:

• Writing drafts of skill guides, cornerstone articles, and Market Index narrative sections, under editorial review by a human operator.
• Code generation for the audit pipeline, rubric implementation, and site infrastructure.
• Editorial self-review — checking drafts against brand standards, factual consistency with the underlying dataset, and methodology compliance.

AI is NOT used for:

• Computing Real Remote Scores from listing text. Scores are produced by a deterministic rule-based library (realRemoteScore.v2.js), not by a language model. The code is the score; the same listing text yields the same score every time.
• Generating job listings, inventing companies, or synthesising data for Market Index tables. The underlying dataset is aggregated from public sources only (see methodology).
• Producing quotes attributed to anyone inside or outside the organisation without that person's review and approval.

If this disclosure becomes inaccurate, the change is logged under §3.