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 […]

It’s December, meaning that Christmas advertising is in full swing, with companies throwing everything and the kitchen sink to secure advert of the season. One early contender has fallen short with Coca-Cola trying something new with their traditional “Holidays Are Coming” ad. They decided to use artificial intelligence. We all know how it plays out; […]

You’re a recruiter, you do this day in, day out. You know what a good candidate experience looks like, you know what needs to happen to catch the best talent, you know what a fair hiring process looks like. Your hiring manager doesn’t. Your hiring manager has one hundred other things on their mind; they […]