Inside This Issue:
Welcome to this week’s Employee Experience Magazine newsletter.
Every people strategy looks brilliant on a roadmap slide. The trouble starts when the manager who is meant to be coaching the team is covering two vacancies, and the board asks what the money achieved. So this week I have put together five questions to ask before your 2027 plan is signed off.
Sam Ross of Remote also asks what happens when you can hire from anywhere, and it may change where you look for talent. Plus wellbeing experiences from the directory, our NPS calculator and events on both sides of the Atlantic.
Featured Insights:
How much of your 2027 people strategy will change the way work gets done?
Most people strategies look convincing on a roadmap slide. Then the manager meant to hold more development conversations is covering two vacancies, and the board asks what the investment is achieving. I have used new CIPD and Gartner research to set out five questions to ask before your plan is signed off, plus a 30-minute test for your next strategy meeting.
What happens to your talent pool when you can hire anywhere?
AI has already changed where companies hire, according to 3,250 hiring leaders surveyed by Remote. Sam Ross, Chief Legal Officer at Remote, looks at what the company’s employment data shows about pay and skilled workers outside capital cities, and why the EU’s Right to Stay strategy matters to employers. He also explains what European businesses can do before any new law arrives.
From the directory
DIRECTORY PICK OF THE WEEK
Breathwork, forest bathing, laughter yoga, soundbaths and therapy dog visits. Sessions range from a short pause inside a busy conference to a full wellbeing day.
There are 41 wellbeing and recovery providers in the directory. Here are two examples from opposite sides of the Atlantic.
Cardiff and London, or online | 5 to 200 people in person, 350 or more online
Breathwork sessions for your team, in person or online.
US: Calming Spot
Los Angeles and San Diego | 13–30 people
Sound bath, breathwork and yoga sessions that help your team slow down and reset.
TOOL OF THE WEEK
Surveyed your people and not sure how to score the answers?
Enter group totals, a count for each score or the raw scores. The calculator shows the Net Promoter Score or eNPS, every step of the working and the margin of error.
Useful for HR and internal comms teams who run surveys and want to see how a score was reached.
In other news
Stay current with key headlines and announcements from across the industry.
Events
Find the full calendar of upcoming HR and employee experience events at emexmag.com/events.
FREE EVENT OF THE WEEK
HiBob Horizons 2026
18 November 2026 | Shoreditch, London | 08:30 to 17:30 UK | Free
HiBob’s one-day leadership event for senior People, Finance and Technology leaders across EMEA.
US
Medallia Experience ’27
9 to 11 February 2027 | Las Vegas
Medallia’s customer conference for leaders who shape customer and employee experience programmes.
Gartner Digital Workplace Summit San Diego 2027
1 to 2 March 2027 | Chula Vista, California
Two days on digital employee experience and workplace technology.
UK
WORKTECH26 London
17 November | London
A one-day look at the future of work, workplace design, AI and employee experience.
REBA Future Forum 2026
19 November | London
A one-day conference and exhibition for senior reward and benefits leaders.
Are you doing cool stuff at work?
Are you doing great things to move the dial on the employee experience where you work? We’d love to hear about it and start sharing ideas within the community. Get in touch with [email protected] if you have a project, an observation or a win that we can share and celebrate with you.
