Emma Townsley · 5 December 2025
2026 will be a defining year for employee engagement. With AI advancing at speed, skills gaps widening and managers under unprecedented pressure, organisations are facing a critical choice: lean into people-centred leadership or risk falling behind. In this piece, we unpack the forces driving the new engagement divide, and the actions high-performing organisations are taking to stay ahead.
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Emma Townsley · 27 November 2025
As 2026 approaches, line managers are facing unprecedented pressure - rising expectations, shrinking resources, and escalating emotional strain across teams. This “Great Squeeze” is already eroding engagement and trust. Without targeted support now, organisations risk entering 2026 with overstretched managers, declining performance, and a weakened leadership pipeline.
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Michelle Johnson · 16 November 2025
Thousands talk about redundancies from the perspective of those who leave. Almost no one talks about what it does to the people who stay. After surviving five rounds myself, I share the hidden emotional and cultural fallout, and what leaders must understand if they want engagement, trust, and performance to recover. Do you know what your “survivors” aren’t saying out loud?
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 27 April 2023
Research shows, that a third of full-time employees are quiet quitting at their current job.* Whilst this can be seen as poor work ethic, some actually view it as simply setting a healthy work-life balance.
But what exactly is quiet quitting? It may not be what you initially think...
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 24 February 2023
This is a challenging but common topic that many employers struggle with. Certain industries, from Construction and Manufacturing to Transport and Travel, have employees who work offline. An offline colleague is someone who works away from a central workplace without direct access to a computer, or who doesn't have email contact with their employees and […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 18 January 2021
Today is ‘Blue Monday’ in the UK, and since the day was ‘established’ in 2005, it is officially the Bluest Monday in Blue Monday history. (We need not support that statement; the word ‘pandemic’ is enough). The History of Blue Monday Blue Monday was coined in 2005 by Dr Cliff Arnall who conducted academic research […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 4 November 2020
Did you know, today is National Stress Awareness Day? Stress Awareness Day was established by the International Stress Management Association (ISMA) in 1998. The initiative aims to raise awareness about stress, its triggers and impacts, and the ways it can be managed, while promoting health and wellbeing for individuals and companies. Why Stress Awareness Day […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 12 August 2020
+Redeem your free engagement and wellbeing guide Employee wellbeing is no trend - even though it’s fairly ‘new’, with companies like Google, Facebook, Huffington Post etc, implementing wellbeing strategies in the last decade or less, it is absolutely here to stay. Heightened importance has been placed on employee wellbeing since: the understanding and transparency of […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 7 July 2020
Measuring people metrics such as employee engagement and wellbeing has become one of the most important HR strategies of the decade - and now more than ever, businesses are eager to learn more about their people and create the best possible environment for performance. In a study conducted by Gallup, only 33% of employees reported […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 5 June 2020
After the murder of George Floyd by a law enforcement officer in the USA, the fight for his justice has taken the world by storm and has ignited a global call for change and equality. Protesting and creating awareness on platforms such as social media is powerful and creates momentum, but societal change takes work. […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 20 April 2020
Today, organisations have become more people-centric; they’re more concerned about things like workplace experience, job satisfaction and the way their employees feel about their jobs than they were before. That’s because these factors play a vital role in attracting and retaining talent, improving productivity and boosting profit. But an organisation cannot establish an inspiring workplace […]
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