Welcome to My Blog

ByEfraín Gómez

After a while thinking about it, I have finally done it.

This is the first post on my website, and I want to use it to explain what this space is for, who it is aimed at, and why I decided to build it.

Why this blog exists

The HR profession is changing fast. Regulation, technology, and workforce expectations are all shifting at the same time. Organisations are moving towards leaner people functions, leveraging automation to do more with less. The questions HR teams, business leaders, and managers are grappling with today (around workforce design, legal exposure, performance management, and what good people management actually looks like) deserve more than a LinkedIn post.

I follow a number of HR professionals who are putting themselves out there: building tools, creating content, running communities, and keeping the dialogue alive. I want to contribute to that. Not just for my own development, but because I think the profession benefits when practitioners share what they are actually seeing and thinking, rather than what they think people want to hear.

What I will be writing about

The blog will focus on four areas that sit at the centre of how I think about HR:

  • People Strategy and Business Partnering. How HR connects to business strategy in practice, not just on paper.

  • Employment Law. Making sense of regulatory changes and what they mean for day-to-day people management.
  • Organisational Development & Change Management. How organisations and their people actually navigate change, and what HR’s role looks like in that.
  • AI in the People Function. where automation genuinely helps, where it does not, and what it means for HR metrics and capacity.

The focus will be practical and evidence-based. I am not interested in abstract frameworks that look good on a slide but fall apart in a real organisation. Some topics will be UK-specific. Others will be relevant across borders. Either way, the conversation about best practices does not stop at any border.

f you want to know more about my background and experience, you can read my full profile on the About Page.

Who this is for

This blog is for HR professionals, business leaders, and anyone who works with people and wants to think more carefully about how their organisations manage them. The conversation I want to have is as relevant for a line manager trying to navigate a difficult performance conversation as it is for an HR director building a people strategy for a scaling business.

I would rather have that conversation with people who are living these challenges than people who are theorising about them from the outside.

What is next

The first article is coming this week. It covers the January 2027 unfair dismissal changes and what they mean in practice for UK employers.

If any of this is relevant to your work, I would be glad to hear from you. You can fill in the contact form or reach out using my contact details.

Welcome!