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This month: why half the S&P 500 could be replaced within a decade; colleagues self-funding their AI; China’s rare earth deadline; heat costing 24 million working hours; tougher employment law meeting a tribunal backlog; and who gets heard when an AI notetaker joins the meeting.

Introducing scenario planning, 2nd edition, to both deliver strategic value and reimagine the internal communication profession.

This month: rookie CEOs given the wheel before boards trust them, AI adoption racing ahead of governance everywhere it appears, communities running the climate briefings government won't, a widening AI pay divide, retirees returning to work, and why menopause support needs to catch up. The intelligence internal communicators need before the story runs away.

This month: boards rehearsing for multiple futures; deepfake fraud eroding trust in work calls and video meetings; the cheapest AI choice turning out to be the greenest; job-hugging finally starting to crack; and a representation gap costing organisations more than most realise. The intelligence internal communication professionals need to help shape decisions, not just distribute them.

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.

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.

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.

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