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Engagement Scores Are Useless Without Understanding Emotions

Michelle Johnson · 1 October 2025
Engagement survey scores show what is happening, but not why. Emotions—like stress, pride, or frustration—drive behaviour, spread across teams, and often shift before scores do. Without this key insight, engagement scores are useless...
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Getting It Right: Why Monitoring Employee Emotions Matters When Increasing Office Days

Sophie Hatt · 19 September 2025
Over the past year, UK businesses have steadily increased the number of in-office days expected from employees. Some are moving from two to three days, others pushing for four or even full-time presence. The shift is often driven by good intentions: rekindling collaboration, boosting innovation, or reviving company culture.
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What the British & Irish Lions Can Teach Us About Employee Engagement

Andy Meredith · 16 July 2025
With the 2025 British and Irish Lions tour in Australia in full swing, Andy Meredith asks what we can learn from the rugby team about healthy employee engagement.
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From Firefighting to Futureproofing: How HR Can Drive Strategic Change

Michelle Johnson · 18 February 2025
Michelle Page unpacks the challenges and strategies behind moving HR from firefighting to embedding leader-led, thriving workforces. Helping HR teams influence senior leaders, build leadership accountability, and transforming their people strategy from reactive to proactive.
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‘Stressed’ and ‘Unappreciated’ are the top negative feelings at work

Inpulse Employee Engagement · 26 September 2024
Almost a fifth of employees (18%) feel stressed at work, according to recent data from Inpulse, experts in employee engagement, whose survey data takes into consideration 20,000 employees across 10 countries. After stress, the next most dominant negative emotion was ‘unappreciated’ at 15%. When compared to data from 2022, 18% of employees were feeling both unappreciated […]
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Recognition: It isn’t just a feel-good gesture, it’s a strategic business move

Alex Williams · 25 September 2024
In recognition of World Gratitude Day, Alex Williams explores the value of a culture of recognition and our exciting plans to continually develop the Inpulse engagement platform through 2025.
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The Four-Day Work Week: Is it the solution to improve employee wellbeing?

Alex Williams · 22 July 2024
Alex explains how our survey data will help you discover the pros and cons of a four-day working week.
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Are your employees stressed? Three things you can do to reduce stress in the workplace

Alex Williams · 30 May 2024
Drawing on Inpulse’s own survey data, our Head of Insights and Consulting offers three solutions to the problem of workplace stress
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Creating unity at work: what every generation needs to learn

Matt Stephens · 12 April 2024
Riding the waves of intergenerational co-working is a skilled craft, but getting to grips with it is crucial for businesses, argues Matt Stephens
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Want to engage your people better? Focus on the local environment

Alex Williams · 3 April 2024
Alex Williams explores how engagement is driven more by local environment than big picture vision and values.
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Is there a ‘generational war’ playing out in workplaces?

Inpulse Employee Engagement · 19 March 2024
Commentators warn Gen Z and older workers are ‘talking in two different languages’ as report finds stark contrasts between generations’ approaches to work
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