The blind spots we're missing (and what Bolt's doing right)

Inside This Issue:

AI adoption in the workplace nearly doubled in six months, with 75% of knowledge workers now using generative AI - but here's what's fascinating: while we're all scrambling to understand AI's impact on employee experience, some of our most fundamental EX building blocks are still flying under the radar. Take global mobility, for instance. It's quietly shaping careers, retention, and organizational agility, yet many of us treat it as a compliance afterthought rather than the strategic EX lever it actually is.

This disconnect between emerging trends and established (but undervalued) practices feels very 2024, doesn't it? With hybrid work continuing to deliver the highest employee experience scores across engagement, well-being, inclusion, and intent to stay, we're getting better at some things while completely missing others.

Today's roundup tackles both, the strategic blind spots we're overlooking and the communication realities we need to face head-on.

Featured Insights:

The Strategic Blind Spot: Why Global Mobility Is Still an Overlooked Asset

Most EX leaders know retention is expensive, but how many are leveraging global mobility as a retention and engagement strategy? Eileen breaks down why this isn't just about expat packages anymore – it's about creating pathways that transform how employees see their future with your organization.

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Said Is Not Heard: Rethinking Leadership Communication

Tatjana's back with uncomfortable truths about leadership communication that hit different in our post-2024 workplace. Spoiler: saying the right things isn't enough when your delivery method is stuck in 2019. Her insights on why "heard" and "understood" are two very different outcomes will reshape how you think about internal comms.

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Fresh off the Press

Stay current with key headlines and announcements from across the industry.

• Bolt Partners with Powered by Humans to Define New Operating Principles

• How to Protect Your Team During a Heatwave: A Guide for People Managers

• From GenAI to Agentic AI: How Hexaware is Future-Proofing its Workforce

From Our Vault

A timely revisit as we see increased labor activity across sectors. The patterns revealed in strike data often predict broader EX challenges months before they surface in engagement surveys.

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The Extra Point

Reality Check: 78% of AI users are bringing their own AI tools to work, which means your "AI strategy" is already being written by your employees. Instead of playing catch-up with policies, consider this an opportunity to co-create guidelines that actually work. The companies getting this right aren't the ones with the most restrictive AI policies, they're the ones turning employee-driven adoption into organizational capability.