Let’s be honest, it’s always quicker to text.   Sometimes when you’re up against it, talking direct to a human just makes more sense than official channels. With disparate working set-ups, frontline disconnects and deadlines looming, the most efficient messaging will always reign supreme.   It’s no surprise then that WhatsApp continues to be the most commonly-used […]

Last month, Mercer unveiled their Workforce 2.0 report on global talent trends, surveying 14,000+ C-suite executives, HR leaders, employees, and investors on how modern businesses are changing. In part 1 of our Mercer report blog we talked about when automation can be misleading and rising culture problems. For part two, we’re using their findings to […]

What really is employee experience? Looking beyond even simple break downs, you’ll find a whole cavalcade of different organisational challenge, from integration to siloed working to upskilling and fallout from acquisitions. Also, how do we know that employee experience (EX) works for our people? This was the topic at the heart of our latest breakfast […]

Every year, we look forward to our return to Bishopsgate for Gallagher’s Communications Summit. It’s a wonderful event bringing together a broad church of communicators, HR specialists, and more to delve into the latest challenges, successes, and innovations in the world of internal communications. Hosted by Marc Wright and Jennifer Reischel-Berg with panache and a […]

This past week, a whole host of different communicators and thought leaders took to their laptops to attend Simpplr’s Employee Comms and Experience Virtual Summit. Covering a range of topics from robust IT decks to leveraging AI to boost corporate comms, it was also an opportunity for Simpplr to present their own findings in the […]

It’s a question so familiar to anyone’s been in an interview. Where do you see yourself in five years’ time? Only this time, it was asked of the employee experience. In Gallagher’s latest webinar, in collaboration with LumApps, the session delved into this idea, led by Marc Wright, founder of Simply, and Elise Rostaing, VP […]

We’re sure that someone over the last month has told you to watch Severance. With an almost inescapable press tour, the sci-fi show follows employees of a shady global company who have had a surgical procedure to ‘sever’ their mind, cognitively separating their work and personal lives. A bit dystopian, right? So it’s surprising to […]

“We’re in a disengagement crisis!!” You’ve probably heard the statistic: 62% of employees are not engaged, and 15% are actively disengaged (Gallup). But are we, the comms cohort, who cried ‘crisis’? What do people actually mean by disengagement? Define engagement? Depending on who you ask, employee engagement can mean multiple things, but by and large […]

Like salmons swimming upstream, flocks of employer brand practitioners and internal communicators descended on the ExCel venue for this year’s Employee Xperience Expo! Employee experience can mean a million different things, sometimes within the same organisation, it was a great opportunity to think strategically about how to improve retention, efficiency, and engagement and learn from […]