The 2023 UK labour market continues to perplex policy makers and frustrate employers. A perfect storm of a shrinking workforce and chronic skills shortages mean it’s harder than ever to recruit, and more crucially, retain, the staff needed to maintain organisational stability.
To better understand the trends and undercurrents, we were delighted to welcome the CEO of the UK’s Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), Neil Carberry.
Tune in to hear Neil’s thoughts about the current state of employment in the UK and the role internal communication has to play in improving hiring outcomes across the board.
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.
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
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.
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.
This episode, Chris Lovett introduces the concept of workplace minimalism. His latest book Relentless is an elegy for simplifying work so that people can deliver better outcomes. For harried internal communicators, this is an episode not to be missed.
