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Your employees are sending signals you might be missing: here's what to listen for
Menopause support, the recognition trap, burnout signals, and where your next high performer already sits
Inside This Issue:
If there's a common thread running through EX conversations right now, it's the gap between what we say we care about and what we actually do.
We're publishing five pieces this week that all hit on a similar nerve: the invisible problems that are quietly eroding your culture, retention, and performance.
One's about the elephant in the room nobody's talking about: menopause support that's lagging dangerously behind policy. Another exposes the recognition gap: how some people get all the attention while others become invisible. Then there's the burnout signal hiding in plain sight. We're also revealing a truth most organizations miss: the skills you need may already be sitting in your teams.
And as UNLEASH Paris 2026 approaches, we're exploring what the future of work looks like when you're actually ready to shape it.
This is the week to stop ignoring what you already know.
Featured Insights:
Recognition is not one problem. It is a word employees use for several different
unmet needs.
In engagement survey comments, "I don't feel recognised" can mean "nobody says
thank you". It can also mean "my work is invisible", "my manager does not
understand what this took", "the same people always get noticed", or "I am being
asked to sustain a level of effort that is starting to cost me".
In my conversation with Jonathan Attia, CEO of Pluxee UK, I wanted to get underneath the word itself. Before we reach for a recognition programme, a platform, a points system or a manager toolkit, are we clear what problem we are solving?
Good EX work starts by understanding which one it is.
Read the full article.
New research from TalentLMS finds half of organisations hire externally for skills
they already have inside. The problem is rarely a shortage though. It's that nobody
can see the capability already there.
In the News
From Our Vault
From Recruitment to Farewell: How Internal Comms Shapes the Employee Story
This essential read explores how the most intentional organizations use comms to amplify culture from the moment someone accepts an offer through their final exit conversation. Worth revisiting as you plan your 2026 comms strategy.
The Extra Point
The quiet crisis nobody's acting on: One in five employees never get recognized for their work. Not once. Meanwhile, 62% of employers have no menopause support policy in place, despite menopause affecting one in six women so severely they leave their jobs. These aren't nice-to-have improvements, they're retention leaks.
If you read nothing else this week, audit your recognition patterns and your health benefits. What you'll find might surprise you.
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