This Conference will take an in depth look at the fast changing world of internal communications and how it is increasingly taking on the critical employee engagement role that has too often been neglected by those in HR.
The way we work is changing rapidly. Our people are becoming more mobile with access to more and more sophisticated technology. The way we communicate with our people must also change and we will look at how organisations are grappling with the challenges thrown up by the seismic changes in the way we work.
Delegates will learn how internal communications can deliver effective employee engagement across the entire organisation and how to create a strategy for the entire employee journey. The focus will be on those organisations that are driving towards competitive advantage by getting their employee communications strategies right.
With the World Cup now in full swing it is important for business managers and owners to be aware of how the tournament may affect their workforce in the coming weeks. Although excitement around the competition can have a positive impact on employees, research by office stationary supplier Viking indicates that an increased number of […]
MPs have accused the heads of Asda and Sainsbury’s of talking “baloney” about the impact of their merger. Neil Parish, chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, said small suppliers would suffer from their pledge to cut 10% off the price of “everyday” items after they merge. Asda chief executive Roger Burnley and […]
Staff at discount retailer Poundworld have been told “closing down” sales will start on Thursday. However, administrators Deloitte stressed that no stores were “definitely” closing and that the search for a buyer continued. Deloitte also said it had appointed retail consultants Hilco to help with the management of the stores. Poundworld, which went into administration […]
Dixons Carphone has reported a big fall in annual profits as the retailer admitted that it had “plenty of work to do” in revamping its business. Pre-tax profits for the year to 28 April fell to £382m, from £500m a year earlier. The retailer is set to close 92 of its more than 700 stores this year […]
Research from a temp staff recruitment platform shows that demand for retail temp workers has gone down by more than 376% in the last four years. The research found the main reason for the decrease to be the rise of online shopping. Staff Heroes has released research looking at the decline of temp workers in the […]
Employee engagement has surfaced as a major concern in delivering improvements in customer experience (CX), with 86 percent of CX executives in a Gartner, Inc. survey ranking it as having an equal or greater impact than other factors such as project management and data skills. “CX is a people issue,” said Olive Huang, research vice president at Gartner. […]
Almost two in three (63%) of UK employees would outsource work tasks to a robot if they could, according to research commissioned by ABBYY®, a global provider of content intelligent solutions and services. For almost a quarter of Brits (24%) attending meetings is their most hated work activity. While one in six (17%) dislike reviewing long documents […]
The boss of beleaguered rail firm Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is to resign. Passengers have faced major disruption as hundreds of trains were cancelled following the introduction of new timetables in May. GTR, which runs Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern, said chief executive Charles Horton would remain in post for a short time to oversee the development […]
A new report from Google has revealed that little has changed despite a commitment to increasing diversity among staff employed by the tech giant. Overall nearly 70% of Google staff were men, as has been the case since 2014. In the US almost 90% were white or Asian, 2.5% were black and 3.6% Latin American. […]
Engineering firm Rolls-Royce is to cut 4,600 jobs over the next two years as part of a major reorganisation. Middle managers and back-office staff are to bear the brunt of the cuts, which are expected to hit its Derby base hard. The company is refocusing its business on civil aerospace, defence and power systems. About […]
