Category: Employee Experience
Recognition, belonging and the power of connection: celebrating the International Day of Friendship
Holly Coe | 28 August 2025
Employee engagement | Culture | Employee Experience
When the government published its Get Britain Working Whitepaper in November 2024, it laid bare some stark figures relating to worker wellbeing and absenteeism. The paper cited “2.8 million people locked out of work due to long-term sickness” and claimed that mental health accounted for 25% of the rise in long-term sick among 16 to 49-year-olds between 2019 and 2022. Friendship may not appear in a balance sheet, or on many board meeting agendas, but its value to organisational culture and employee wellbeing is immeasurable.
Reward and Benefits Technology Disruptors – What’s New?
Karen Thornley | 16 July 2025
Global mobility | HR Technology | Employee Experience
As businesses strive to stay agile in a hyper-competitive environment, the intersection of reward strategy and employee experience has become a critical focus.
Retain your talent with a smarter approach to pay progression
Holly Coe | 10 July 2025
Pay Progression | Reward Strategy | Employee Experience
When employees see little room for pay growth, talent retention suffers. But by refocusing pay progression, employers can maximise investment and keep key people engaged, says Holly Coe, senior reward consultant.
The Future of Reward: how could things look in 2035?
Justine Woolf | 19 June 2025
Evaluate | Job Evaluation Software | Agile working | Job evaluation | Employee Experience | Advance | The Metaverse | Employee Value Proposition
Ten years ago, Personal Group CEO Deborah Frost wrote an article for Personnel Today entitled What Could Reward Look Like in 2025? She explored potential trends towards matrix organisations and more social ways of working, and asked how skillsets, base pay and working environments might evolve.
Employee Appreciation Day - Importance of a thank you
Justine Woolf | 04 July 2024
Employee communications | Employee Experience
Recognition is one of those areas of reward that we all think is quite easy to do. Put in place a formal company scheme, give it a cheesy name and Bob’s your uncle – we have recognition! The reality is that while formal schemes do work, and I have seen them work very well, my experience is that formal company recognition schemes are the icing on the cake. Outside of pay and bonus awards, it’s at the individual and team level where the greatest impact of non-financial recognition can be made on a daily basis.
Unravelling the Employee Value Proposition: Key Insights and Strategies for Organisational Success
Justine Woolf | 08 March 2024
Employee Experience | Employee Value Proposition
The Employee Value Proposition, commonly referred to as EVP, has been a topic of much discussion lately. However, what I've noticed is that while many people talk about it, some struggle to grasp its true meaning and significance.
Reward strategy: How to ensure your reward strategy supports the employee experience at different life stages
Sarah Lardner | 05 October 2023
Employee Experience | Employee Value Proposition
Paving the path to employee satisfaction: crafting a dynamic reward strategy aligned with different stages of life.
GUEST BLOG: Employee Appreciation Day: Appreciate employees all year round with reward and recognition
03 March 2022
Motivation | Recognition | Reward | Employee Experience
4th March is Employee Appreciation Day – a great opportunity to say an extra “thank you” and make your staff feel valued.
The Top Ten Things You Need to Do Now to Remain Competitive
06 January 2022
Pay & Reward | Pay trends | New Year | Reward | Employee Experience | Recruitment
The Great Resignation is impacting organisations across the globe, and as an employer, there are certain things that you need to be doing to remain competitive in the current marketplace. The Innecto team have pulled together their top ten sustainable suggestions that won’t break your internal systems and will support equality and fairness.
How to make your communication strategy inclusive
24 December 2020
Employee engagement | Employee communications | Communications | Employee Experience
Achieving a truly inclusive internal comms strategy takes energy and a commitment to review and evolve. Cathryn Edmondson discusses some of the steps an organisation can take in pursuit of an inclusive internal comms strategy.
How communicating with and engaging employees will change in the next five years
03 December 2020
Employee engagement | Employee communications | Engagement | Communications | HR Technology | Employee Experience | Diversity
As baby boomers bow out while Gen Z become a bigger proportion of the workforce, it’s important to rethink your organisation’s engagement strategy. With only 1 in 3 employees on average engaged globally, there has never been more reason to refresh existing tactics.
It's not always about the money: how to motivate your staff with non-cash rewards
28 August 2020
Pay & Reward | Employee engagement | Recognition | Reward | Employee Experience
While financial motivation can certainly attract key talent to your organisation, it will not always keep it. Emer Bucukoglu suggests ways in which you can use non-monetary rewards to attract, motivate and retain staff, and improve your company's bottom line along the way.
