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The IOIC Impact Brief: July 2026

This month: leadership silence in a stagflation-lite economy; AI agents that no longer wait to be asked; net zero's £100bn case under political attack; the four-day week evidence most organisations are ignoring; and why burnout is a structural failure, not a personal one. The intelligence IC professionals need to advise at the highest level.

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10 Jul 2026

The IOIC Impact Brief: July 2026

This month: leadership silence in a stagflation-lite economy; AI agents that no longer wait to be asked; net zero's £100bn case under political attack; the four-day week evidence most organisations are ignoring; and why burnout is a structural failure, not a personal one. The intelligence IC professionals need to advise at the highest level.

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24 Jun 2026

How to simplify internal communication with Chris Lovett

What if doing less was the answer? In a new episode of the Future of Internal Communication podcast, Dom, Jen and Cat are joined by author and TEDx speaker Chris Lovett to explore workplace minimalism and why simplifying work protects people and performance.

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15 Jun 2026

The IOIC Impact Brief: June 2026

This month: geopolitical disruption and honest communication; AI value over AI theatre; sustainability's shift to legal liability; new employment rights many colleagues still don't know about; the collapse in leadership trust; and why emotional agility is now business-critical. The intelligence IC professionals need to advise at the highest level.

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20 May 2026

IC Index 2026: The reality check

The UK's leading annual research into internal communication. This year, the findings are a reality check. Based on a survey of 5,000 UK employees in organisations with 500 or more employees, conducted in partnership with Ipsos Karian and Box.

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15 May 2026

The IOIC Impact Brief: May 2026

Our new-look Impact Brief covers the AI crisis of confidence, the sustainability story most internal communication strategies are missing, the rise of FOBO and survival stacking, and why employer healthcare has become a business-critical communication issue.

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13 Apr 2026

The IOIC Monthly Trends Report: April 2026

This month's IC Trends Report explores the shifts quietly reshaping work, from AI anxiety fuelling new workers' movements to the rise of Scope 4 sustainability, workspace hackers exposing the gap between office design and real working life, and what the dating recession is doing to Gen Z's sense of belonging at work

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17 Mar 2026

The IOIC Monthly Trends Report: March 2026

This month’s report explores emerging trends shaping work and organisations, from the disappearing graduate on ramp and the rise of ‘greenhushing’ to the widening green skills gap, polymorphic organisations, the ‘friction maxxing’ pushback against AI, and the silent productivity crisis driven by financial anxiety in the workforce.

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11 Mar 2026

Leading through trust and transformation

Internal communication stands at a crossroads. That was the starting point for IOIC’s Designing the Future of Internal Communication: The Leaders Forum, a full-day event that brought senior IC professionals together to explore trust, technology, listening and the evolving shape of organisations.

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16 Feb 2026

The IOIC Monthly Trends Report: February 2026

This month's report explores the impact of emerging trends, including the challenges of entering what Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls 'the adolescence of technology', the dangerous gap between flawed climate-economic models and reality, the rise of workplace lexicon signalling fundamental shifts in employee expectations (from 'shift sulking' to 'office frogging'), the fragmentation of trust precisely when we need connection most, as well as why organisations may need to move beyond performative DEI to systemic fairness frameworks.

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04 Feb 2026

Exploring the polymorphic organisation with Perry Timms

The forces disrupting business are confounding organisational leaders across the board. As the months pass, it’s increasingly clear no amount of command-and-control executive dogma will reinstate economic stability. New operating and organising frameworks are needed, ones that introduce flexibility and optimal market-responsiveness for accelerated business performance. In this episode, leading organisational change and HR thinker Perry Timms introduces the concept of the Polymorphic Organisation.

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