The Audit Thesis
Most remote jobs aren't actually remote.
Nobody was auditing. So we are.
RemNavi is the independent auditing body for the remote job market. We pull every listing from 90+ public sources, rate each one on a 100-point rubric, publish the rubric, publish the failure rates, and disclose every financial relationship that could influence the work.
The market currently has no third-party auditor. Employers self-label. Platforms don't verify. Candidates absorb the cost of discovering the mislabel on day three of the hiring process. We exist to make that discovery happen on day zero — and to make the pattern legible at market scale.
Last reviewed: 2026-04-24 · Published by DField Kft., Hungary (Cg. 13-09-242182).
The Instrument
What we audit
Every listing in the RemNavi index is scored on the Real Remote Score — a public five-pillar rubric that awards up to 100 points based on how much candidate-facing information the listing actually contains. The rubric is versioned. The weights are published. The code that applies it is the same code that powers the public RRS Checker.
Compensation
25 ptsDoes the listing disclose pay? In what range, in what currency, and is equity called out separately?
Location
25 ptsIs the geography explicit? Country list, timezone band, or single-city? "Fully remote" without qualifiers costs points.
Source
15 ptsDoes the listing link back to an employer-controlled career page, or only a third-party board?
Clarity
15 ptsAre responsibilities, seniority, and the hiring process described in candidate-usable detail?
Freshness
20 ptsHas the posting been re-confirmed by its source within the last 14 days?
Total
100 points
No hidden factors. Every point is traceable to a rubric clause.
Boundaries
What we don't audit
The Real Remote Score measures listing quality, not employer quality. The distinction matters — especially for journalists and HR researchers citing our data.
We don't audit whether the salary is fair.
We check whether the listing discloses a number. The number itself sits inside the employer's own compensation philosophy, which is out of scope. Our Market Index reports distribution data, not fairness judgments.
We don't audit company culture.
A listing can score 100 at a company that is difficult to work for. Glassdoor, Blind, and personal networks are the right tools for that question. Confusing listing quality with culture quality is a common citation error — please don't.
We don't audit hiring decisions.
We have no visibility into who is shortlisted, interviewed, or offered. We never stand in the application flow. Every click on RemNavi goes directly to the employer's own page.
We don't audit employment outcomes.
Whether a role turns out to be truly flexible, truly remote, or truly as-advertised after signing is the employer's performance, not the listing's. We score the document, not the experience.
We don't audit individual candidates.
RemNavi holds no candidate data. No accounts, no CV database, no tracking, no resale.
Independence
How the audit stays independent
An auditor that takes money from the audited party is not an auditor. These are the specific commitments that keep that line intact at RemNavi — published, so they can be checked against our behaviour.
No paid rankings. No pay-to-score.
Real Remote Score is computed by the same rubric applied to every listing in the index, regardless of whether the employer has any commercial relationship with us. No company can pay to raise its score, lower a competitor's score, suppress a listing, or influence the weights. The rubric changes only through the versioned process described on our methodology page.
Featured Listings are advertising, not endorsement.
Employers can pay to promote placement of a listing on category and skill hubs. That placement does not alter the Real Remote Score, does not remove the score from display, and does not change the listing's ordering inside ranked views (Leaderboard, Market Index, RRS Checker results). Every featured unit carries the "Featured" label. If a Featured listing scores badly, its score is shown anyway.
No EOR, payroll, or hiring-platform affiliate revenue.
The remote-jobs content economy is saturated with affiliate relationships between job sites and Employer-of-Record providers, payroll platforms, and hiring tools. RemNavi does not accept these partnerships. We write about EORs when relevant; we do not earn a fee when readers sign up with one.
No candidate data sold or brokered.
RemNavi does not require accounts, does not collect CVs, and does not run a resume database. No candidate-side revenue stream — subscription, premium, lead-generation — exists, because it is incompatible with a no-accounts model and with our positioning as an auditor.
Editorial separation from commercial.
Market Index issues, guides, leaderboards, and corrections are produced under RemNavi Editorial and governed by the rules in our editorial policy. The commercial side — Featured Listings, employer pages — cannot review, edit, or delay editorial output. This separation is enforced by our publisher, DField Kft.
Outputs
What the audit produces
The audit is only useful if its output is public, citable, and structurally different from what anyone else publishes. These are the three load-bearing artefacts.
Artefact 1
Market Index
Quarterly numbered issue of the remote job market — audit-wide pass/fail rates, distribution tables, category shifts. Citable by journalists.
Artefact 2
Real Remote Score
The scored rating attached to every listing. Versioned rubric. Transparent weights. Regenerable from the listing text alone.
Artefact 3
Public RRS Checker
Paste any job listing — ours or elsewhere — and get the same score we'd assign inside the index. The rubric is the product; the tool is just the rubric running on an input you control.
Governance
If a company wants to contest a score
Auditors that can't be challenged become unreliable. Any employer can request a re-audit of any listing associated with their careers page.
- Request a review at editorial@remnavi.com, identifying the listing URL and the specific rubric pillar being challenged.
- Editorial re-applies the rubric to the current live listing. If our score was wrong under the live rubric, it is corrected and logged in the corrections register.
- If the score is correct, we explain which rubric clauses produced the result, and we point to what a future revision of the listing would need to contain to score higher. We do not change the score to reflect the employer's preference for a different score.
- All corrections are public. Material changes to any published Market Index issue are logged in the issue's own corrections section, dated, and not silently edited.
Full procedure: Editorial policy.
Publisher
Who runs the audit
RemNavi is produced by RemNavi Editorial under DField Kft., a Hungarian limited-liability company, not by any individual rights-holder.
- Publisher
- DField Kft.
- DField Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság
- Registration
- Cg. 13-09-242182
- Tax ID HU32876217
- Registered address
- Torony köz 5. 1.ajtó
2120 Dunakeszi, Hungary - Division
- Contents
- One of three DField divisions (Solutions, Systems, Contents).
- Editorial contact
- editorial@remnavi.com
- Press contact
- press@remnavi.com
See also: About RemNavi · Press resources · Data collection methodology · Editorial policy
For Researchers & Journalists
Cite the audit
Data and findings published by RemNavi are released under CC BY 4.0. Use them freely in articles, reports, academic work, and competitor research, with attribution.
For raw data files, embargoed issues, or an interview with editorial staff: press@remnavi.com — we commit to a response within 4 business hours on UK/ET weekday mornings.