We challenge the assumption that independent workers are not relevant to or within the remit of HRM practice and theory. Traditionally, HR focusses on the management of employees within the boundaries of the organisation. Yet, this neglects the wider role that HR can and must have in the management of human work that the organisation needs yet exists beyond these boundaries. We argue for the ‘Human’ in HRM to include independent workers. We first contextualise them, highlight the reasons for neglect, and examine and provoke three key areas. We set out the taken for granted, problematise, and then show how they are relevant, look different, or could be. Through this, we provoke exactly what HR does, where it starts and finishes, and its role in a network or ecosystem rather than purely an organisation. We close by offering ways of making this happen for both theory and practice.

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人力资源管理在独立工作中的（ir）相关性：具有挑战性的假设

我们挑战独立工作者与人力资源管理实践和理论无关或不在其范围内的假设。传统上，人力资源侧重于内部员工的管理组织的边界。然而，这忽略了人力资源在组织需要的人力工作管理中可以而且必须发挥的更广泛的作用，而这些作用超出了这些界限。我们主张人力资源管理中的“人”应包括独立工作者。我们首先对它们进行背景化，突出被忽视的原因，并检查和激发三个关键领域。我们列出了被认为是理所当然的问题，然后展示它们是如何相关的，看起来不同的，或者可能是。通过这个，我们准确地激发了人力资源的工作，它从哪里开始和结束，以及它在网络或生态系统中的作用，而不是纯粹的组织。最后，我们为理论和实践提供了实现这一目标的方法。