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Since about 1994, the intranet has been the primary internal communications hub for many businesses. That said, research tells us that fewer than 50% of employees use their organisation’s intranet on a regular basis yet people pick up their phone more than 85 times a day. This begs the question, what is the point of […]

Corporate culture is undoubtedly a hot topic at the moment. Whether it’s research telling us that a company’s culture is more important to employees than salary levels, or Uber hitting the headlines for its “troubled” (read sexist and divisive) culture, company ethos is fast becoming a business imperative. Corporate culture is determined by a myriad

The rise of the remote worker is seemingly unstoppable, with millions of Brits now working from home.  While this increased flexibility can do wonders for employee work-life balance (not to mention the reduced overheads from having fewer bums on seats in the office), one major downside is the difficulty of creating a unified company culture

Two pieces of news regarding employee communications have caught our eye recently, both of which highlight the complexity as well as the potential of digital technology and communication in the workplace. We have already blogged about the mobile phone’s growing importance as a workplace tool, but this week we’re going to drill down into the

PwC has been conducting its Global Digital IQ® Survey annually since 2007. Worryingly, in its tenth anniversary edition the firm notes that digital IQ (defined as “the measurement of an organisation’s abilities to harness and profit from technology”) is actually in decline. In fact, “Enterprises aren’t so much falling behind as struggling to keep up