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The Human Resource (HR) area has made little use of innovative technologies to develop its processes, routines and education. However, we believe that digital tools such as Virtual Reality (VR) can play an important role in developing social aspects of work. We have investigated Human Resource Development Professionals’ (HRD-Ps’) perception of using a VR-prototype for training of social skills in the workplace. A digital three-dimensional world was designed for the study participants, in which they interacted with agents to train social skills in the workplace. Study participants explored a VR-prototype through the usage of head-mounted devices (HMD). We collected the designer’s description of the intended design element of the VR prototype and pre- and post-intervention questionnaire from the study participants and conducted a top-down thematic analysis. The three intended design elements 1) focus on …