How Should Organisations Protect Employee Experience During AI Adoption? Five EX Leaders Have Their Say

AI adoption is accelerating. But are organisations moving fast enough on the human side of the equation? At Engage Employee Summit 2026, we put this question to a group of practitioners and experts: how should organisations protect employee experience as...

Best AI HR Software in 2026: Eight Platforms That Reduce Friction

HR software used to be the digital equivalent of a filing cabinet. Now it’s where employees turn when they’re stuck, underpaid, or trying to get a straight answer before their shift starts. That evolution is why picking the best AI...

65% of Employers Are Addressing Women’s Health at Work, So Why Is Progress Still Stalling?

Most organisations know they should be doing more on women’s health at work. The question is why so few are doing it well. New analysis from global consultancy Kearney, developed with the UNFPA-led Equity 2030 Alliance and the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, finds...

The Best Employee Experience Platforms Companies Use When Retention Becomes a Priority

Most organisations don’t set out to neglect employee experience (EX). They just deprioritise it, and the best employee experience platforms on the market exist largely to help them catch up. That deprioritisation has a human cost. People spend a significant part...

How Visa Redesigned Its Employee Volunteering Programme and Nearly Tripled Participation in Two Weeks

When participation in Visa’s employee volunteering programme was low, the instinct — as it so often is in internal communications — was to send better messages. Katie Klimaytys, Director of Global Internal Communications at Visa, decided to challenge that instinct...

Your Employee Experience Roundup: What 3,000 EX Practitioners Were Talking About, Plus AI Predictions from Gartner and Microsoft’s AI Chief

This week, more bold predictions about AI and the future of work – this time from Gartner and Microsoft AI Chief, Mustafa Suleyman. Meanwhile, 3,000 EX practitioners gathered in London and talked more about human themes than tech trends, which...

Engage Employee Summit 2026: More Listening, Less Friction and Leaders Getting Vulnerable

On 20-21 May, Engage Employee Summit 2026 brought together practitioners from across HR, employee experience, internal communications and people strategy. Across the two days, there was very little theory, and a lot of accountability. At a time when many events...

What’s the Most Overrated Metric in Employee Experience Right Now?

EX measurement has never been more sophisticated – yet many organisations are still tracking the wrong things. We asked four people leaders to name the metric they’d retire, and what they’d replace it with.  AI Adoption for Its Own Sake Arne Sjöström,...

The AI Backlash Arrives: What Meta, Google DeepMind, and Amazon Employees Tell Us About Trust at Work

Meta’s aggressive push to convert its people investment into AI infrastructure is prompting visible revolt. Last week, flyers appeared in meeting rooms, restrooms, and on vending machines encouraging staff to sign a petition. “Don’t want to work at the Employee...

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says AI Will Replace White-Collar Workers in 18 Months

Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, told the Financial Times in February that most white-collar work would be fully automated within 12 to 18 months, which generated the usual cycle of alarm and counter-argument. Now, the headlines are circulating once again,...

Job Market Optimism Is Rising in Europe, Gallup Finds. So Why Is Employee Engagement So Low?

Every day, news of another mass layoff hits the headlines. You might expect workers to feel increasingly insecure about the current labour market, given what’s reported on. But, depending on the region you’re looking at, that’s not necessarily the case. In...

Your Employee Experience Roundup: The Manager Crisis, Falling Worker Confidence, and Persistent Perception Gaps

Are leaders and their employees actually working in the same organisation? That’s the question that springs to mind when looking at the key events and research findings of this week. Decision-makers think engagement is rising; employees disagree by 21 percentage points....