The Employee Experience Gap
This whitepaper, The Employee Experience Gap: Global Employee Experience Report 2025 by Havas People, provides an in-depth look at the evolving realities of employee experience (EX) across major markets and industries. Through a combination of large-scale surveys, AI-powered analysis of open-ended responses, and in-depth interviews with both employees and leaders, the report uncovers critical insights into what truly matters to today’s workforce.
Navigating the Perfect Storm: Building the Future-Ready Workforce
The Firstup whitepaper addresses the urgent challenges facing today’s global workforce, particularly the 2.7 billion deskless workers who are often disconnected from traditional corporate communication and support systems. The report identifies a “perfect storm” of converging forces threatening organisational performance and employee wellbeing.
The Power of the Big Screen: Why Cinema Is the Voluntary Benefit Employees Acutally Love
The Cinema Society (Spark) whitepaper explores the power of cinema as an innovative and effective tool for employee rewards, engagement, and corporate wellbeing initiatives. It highlights how offering cinema experiences can enhance workplace culture, increase motivation, and provide a unique, inclusive benefit that appeals to a diverse workforce.
Transform Employee Engagement with One Powerful Platform
The Terryberry whitepaper presents a comprehensive overview of its all-in-one employee engagement platform, designed to boost motivation, retention, and organisational culture through integrated recognition, rewards, wellbeing, and benefits solutions.
Navigating Change: Leading the Workforce of the Future
The 2025 report from Indeed, based on a YouGov survey of nearly 3,400 UK employees, senior managers, and HR decision-makers, explores how the workforce is adapting to ongoing technological, social, and economic change. The study provides a nuanced look at attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI), workplace skills, job security, and the evolving meaning of work.
Why Choose Awardco for Employee Recognition?
This whitepaper from Awardco explores how a strategic, modern approach to employee recognition can transform organisational culture, boost engagement, and drive measurable business results. It details how Awardco’s recognition platform empowers companies to incentivise performance, reduce turnover, and offer employees meaningful, flexible rewards.
2025 Employee Communication Impact Study
The 2025 Employee Communication Impact Study, published by Staffbase and YouGov, examines how internal corporate communication shapes the employee experience across the United States, with a particular focus on the divide between desk-based and non-desk workers. The study draws on over 1,000 US responses (part of a global survey) and provides a detailed look at how communication quality, channel preferences, and leadership messaging impact satisfaction, retention, and organisational trust—especially in times of change and crisis.
The Employer's Guide to Creating a Fitter, Happier and More Productive Workforce
This whitepaper from Epassi UK explores the critical role of employee wellbeing in driving organisational performance, retention, and resilience in today’s challenging workplace landscape. Drawing on recent academic research, industry statistics, and practical case studies, the report makes a compelling case for investing in holistic wellbeing strategies—particularly those that promote physical activity.
Leveraging the Power of Multichannel Comms
This whitepaper from Interact it explores how organisations can optimise internal communications by adopting a multichannel strategy, ensuring messages reach and engage every segment of a modern, diverse workforce.
A strategic, multichannel approach to internal communications is essential for building an informed, connected, and productive workforce. By leveraging the right mix of channels and tools, organisations can ensure critical messages are seen, understood, and acted upon-no matter the business challenge.
The Missing Metric
Wagestream's whitepaper examines the tangible business benefits of investing in employee financial wellbeing, drawing on case studies, industry data, and Wagestream’s experience supporting employers and workers across the UK and beyond.
The New Skills Gap
Achiever's latest whitepaper explores the evolving landscape of workplace skills and the urgent need for HR leaders to bridge the gap between employee abilities and business needs.
Drawing on a global survey of 3,800 employees and 1,400 HR leaders, the report highlights a growing disconnect in how skills are defined, tracked, and developed within organisations.
Why EAPs Are Failing Your Workforce
Sonder critically examines the shortcomings of traditional Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) and presents a compelling case for organisations to shift from reactive employee support to a proactive and preventative approach to workforce wellbeing.
This whitepaper urges employers to rethink their approach to employee wellbeing. Rather than relying on outdated, reactive EAPs, organisations should invest in proactive, holistic support systems that meet the real needs of today’s workforce. By doing so, they can foster a healthier, more engaged, and resilient organisation.
5 Practical Ways to Hit That Retention OKR
This whitepaper from Uber for Business addresses one of the most pressing challenges facing organisations today: employee retention.
Drawing on recent research-including Gallagher’s survey of 3,500 organisations, which found that 51% now rank retention above revenue growth as a top operational priority-the whitepaper offers actionable strategies for leaders aiming to safeguard culture, productivity, and business continuity.
Welcome To Each Person: Make a Positive Impact for Your People
Each Person matters and deserves recognition for a job well done.
With current worldwide financial impacts, it’s more important than ever for businesses to adapt and support employees’ needs and wellbeing.
The Each Person whitepaper presents a comprehensive overview of how modern, digital-first recognition and reward platforms can drive employee engagement, wellbeing, and retention-especially in a rapidly changing economic and workplace landscape.
Health Checks: Your First Line of Defence Against Rising Absence
Employee health is under more strain than ever. Absence rates are rising. NHS wait times are growing. And more people are living with preventable health issues.
For HR and People leaders, one thing is clear: it’s time to move from reactive support to proactive care.
By offering accessible health checks and fast access to digital healthcare, employers can identify issues early, support wellbeing, and build a healthier, more resilient workforce.
In this whitepaper, we explore how prevention is reshaping workplace health—and how Doctor Care Anywhere helps businesses reduce absence, increase engagement, and make healthcare more inclusive for everyone.
The Authority on Global Employment
This whitepaper offers a practical, high-level guide for individuals and organizations transitioning to remote work, whether due to rapid shifts in business needs, dispersed talent, or evolving workplace expectations. It is designed for professionals new to remote work, business leaders moving teams online, and anyone seeking a foundational understanding of effective virtual collaboration.
The Digital Heart of Your Organisation
The Workvivo by Zoom whitepaper presents a compelling case for adopting a unified employee experience platform that acts as the “digital heart” of any organization. Designed to inspire connection, build community, and drive engagement, Workvivo brings together communication, recognition, and analytics in one intuitive solution.
How AI Will Transform Video-based Learning and Development
This whitepaper from Vimeo explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing video-based learning and development (L&D) for modern organizations. As the pace of workplace change accelerates and skills rapidly become obsolete, businesses face mounting pressure to upskill and engage employees efficiently. The whitepaper outlines the strategic role of AI in making L&D more personalized, accessible, and impactful.
Homeshare For The Workforce
This year, caregiving responsibilities for elderly relatives will outpace childcare for working adults in the UK. Employees are struggling to balance these demands. Companies that support these employees will see gains in productivity, retention and employee satisfaction.
This whitepaper from Two Generations addresses a critical and growing challenge in the UK workforce: the rising number of employees balancing work with caregiving responsibilities for elderly relatives. As the demographic shift accelerates, 2025 marks the first year when more working adults will be caring for aging parents than for children, profoundly impacting productivity, retention, and employee wellbeing.
5 Steps to Mastering AI for Internal Communications
This whitepaper from Simpplr provides a practical, strategic roadmap for internal communications professionals seeking to harness the power of AI-driven intranets. With generative AI rapidly transforming the workplace, the document details how communicators can become indispensable strategic partners-driving engagement, retention, and culture-by blending human expertise with advanced technology.
Celebrate Your People and The Moments That Matter
Prezzee is a global digital platform offering a seamless gifting experience that’s personalised, convenient, andsustainable.
Our mission? To ignite human connections through remarkable digital gifting moments.
Our user experience redefines gift cards, driving and celebrating behaviour, whilst putting emotion back into a digital process.
Give joy to your employees, connect with them and give them the ultimate choice in how they redeem, with hundreds of the UK’s best brands available on one Prezzee eGift Card.
10 Best HR Practices for an Engaged Workplace Culture in 2025
Workplace engagement trends are ever-shifting. With new developments every year in technology, volunteerism, social impact, community values, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), it's crucial that you keep on top of upcoming trends in order to maximise employee engagement.
Myths About Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
As we look ahead to 2025 and beyond, many of you are considering how to enhance your
employee benefits offering in a sustainable and cost-effective way. We urge you to consider our electric car salary sacrifice scheme as a powerful addition to your benefits portfolio.
Modern Families Index UK Report 2025
The stark findings in this year’s report provide compelling evidence for employers to invest in support for parents and carers, even in a costconscious environment.
Moments that Matter
Every CSR campaign starts with a big idea. But turning that idea into meaningful impact requires more than just intention. It takes thoughtful planning, timely alignment, and a clear strategy to
engage employees and communities in a meaningful way.
To help you start planning with purpose, we’ve crafted a checklist highlighting key considerations leading up to your campaign’s kick-off, followed by a calendar of notable local and global awareness days.
The Little Book of Happiness
The Little Book of Happiness is your What, Why and How of The Happiness Index. It is your simple guide on everything from our vision to our products, and how we can contribute to enhancing employee wellbeing and organisational success.
The Gender Health Gap
The Gender Health Gap defines a disparity within healthcare experienced by different genders, specifically the poorer services and care received by women. With the help of the Fawcett Society, we're bringing awareness to the Gender Health Gap within the workplace.
From Boomers to Zoomers: How to Bridge The Frontline Generational Skills Gap
The frontline skills shortage, exacerbated by an onboarding and training gap, is impacting everything from employee retention and productivity to health and safety and company margins.
To understand the issue and what can be done to address it, Flip partnered with research firm Workplace Intelligence.
‘Fitting It In’ - Making Workplace Mental Health a Priority
There are many awareness-raising days across the calendar that aim to support and address the stigma associated with the full variety of mental health challenges that one in every four of us will experience on an annual basis.
Connecting and Engaging With Deskless Workers
The internal communicator’s complete guide to reaching colleagues at all corners of the business.
Cloud Canteen Uncovered
Feedr is committed to delivering a seamless experience that fuels theworkday. As part of this commitment, we recently surveyed existing CloudCanteen users to uncover what’s working, what needs improving, and howwe can continue enhancing the Cloud Canteen experience.
Exploring Hybrid Working: Productivity and Flexibility Without Compromising Culture
Best Companies latest hybrid working report delves into the realities of hybrid work, examing the impact on employees beyond just wellbeing. It takes a deep dive into how employees feel about the fairness of hybrid working in cases where this practice is only available to a select group within their organisation, and whether a lack of consistent policy across teams breeds resentment or a sense of unfairness.
The Impact of Motivation on Employee Engagement
In partnership with Forty1, we’ve explored the findings of The Business of Motivation, a study that presents insights from extensive employee research carried out across the UK and US in 2024. Engaging over 2600 full-time employees who have been in post for at least 3 years within large organisations (over 1000 full-time employees), The Business of Motivation provides what we believe is the most detailed exploration into workplace motivation to date.
We’ve explored the findings through an episode of Engage Employee Talks, a Focus Group and two podcast episodes.
The State of Employee Engagement 24/25
The State of Employee Engagement 24/25
Curious about what sets top-performing organizations apart? WorkBuzz’s latest research, featuring insights from over 600 HR leaders and practitioners, reveals the key drivers behind employee engagement in 2024.
Unlock practical takeaways and strategies to help you build a more engaged, productive workforce today!
Navigating the Future of Work
In partnership with Thomas, we’ve explored how organisations are navigating the future of work across the five critical areas that must be fostered to create a productive, cohesive, and fair work environment for employees. The five critical areas are:
• Hybrid working
• Conflict resolution
• Onboarding
• Ethical AI
• General connectedness
Within this supplement, you’ll be able to read more about our key findings, as well as catch-up on-demand on our activities.
The Power of Feedback in the Workplace
In partnership with OneAdvanced, we’ve explored the importance and impact of feedback in today’s workplaces, sending out a survey to over 30,000 members of our Engage Employee community as well as hosting an episode of Engage Employee Talks, a podcast and a Focus Group.
Within this report, you’ll be able to read more about our key findings, as well as catch-up on-demand on our activities.
2024 Employee Engagement Summit: Post-Event Report
2024 saw the industry's largest event of its kind welcome over 1000 attendees.
From case studies to live interviews and panel discussions 2024 showcased the importance of investing in creating an environment that promotes employee learning, growth, and career development and how this is linked to customer satisfaction, corporate reputation, and shareholder value, showcasing its multifaceted impact on overall organisational success.
Engage Employee Magazine: Experience is Everything
Today’s workplace is almost unrecognisable when compared to that of the past. In the last four years alone, we have seen a complete overhaul of the way we work. Having no other option but to find a new way of working during the pandemic, organisations turned to remote working options, placing a stronger emphasis on work-life balance and employee wellbeing.
The State of Internal Communications in 2024
In partnership with Simpplr, we’ve embarked on a journey to unravel the essence of internal communications in today’s workplaces, sending out a survey to over 30,000 members of our Engage Employee community as well as hosting a community-led webinar, podcast and Focus Group.
10 Ways to Increase Intranet Adoption & Create Engagement
Intranet adoption is critical for your intranet’s success. How do you get people to adopt your intranet? Creating an intranet that works takes more than great technology. Learn effective strategies and best practices to drive repeated traffic and avoid making the intranet a stale dumping ground.
Future of Work Conference Post-Event Report
Get your hands on our detailed post-event report and uncover our attendees' valuable feedback, check out the day's snapshots, access our on-demand content, watch the highlights videos and more.
Raconteur Hybrid Working Report
We’re delighted to announce that we have partnered with Raconteur on their ‘Hybrid Working’ report, which was published in The Times today!
Make sure you get your copy to read our article on hybrid working and the trends that have influenced its evolution. In this piece, we explore how the way we work has transformed, sharing some best practices from world-renowned organisations.
Engage Magazine
In this publication, we are exploring the current state of the HR industry and
debating the future of the workplace.
As the Editor of Engage Employee, I would like to thank our contributors
and everyone who took part in the creation of this magazine.
Happy reading!
Employee Engagement Summit Post-Event Report
Curious to know what happened at Europe's largest Employee Engagement Summit in 2023? Get your hands on our detailed post-event report and uncover our attendees' valuable feedback, check out the day's snapshots, access our on-demand content and more.
Engage Awards Winners Yearbook
Welcome to the Engage Awards Yearbook – a publication that’s designed to inspire and celebrate employee engagement excellence through the fantastic achievements of our 2022 winners.
2023 Pay Equity and Transparency Study
Pay equity and transparency is a business imperative, a differentiator, and a legal requirement, but few organizations are executing effectively. To help organisations better understand how they can achieve pay equity and pay transparency to attract and retain talent, in early 2023 we surveyed 1,011 global HR and business leaders.
Your Guide To A Successful Employee Wellbeing Strategy
After reading this guide, you’ll have an understanding of the science behind wellbeing at work, why you should focus on wellbeing now, the factors of employee wellbeing you can take action on, and how to best utilise Culture Amp’s wellbeing survey to plan, launch and measure your employee wellbeing strategy.
THE WORKTANGO GUIDE ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION SURVEYS
The guide brings clarity to these terms, addresses why they matter, looks at barriers to real change and outlines the journey your organisation can take to steer internal dialogue and action towards an all-encompassing understanding, appreciation and welcoming of human differences.
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