March 15th 2022, in our latest ESG & Sustainability Trends Tracker, four our of five (80%) make plain the powerful connection between Sustainable Practice and Employee Engagement. The Pulse Business’ ESG & Sustainability Trends Tracker ran in late February 2022 and went out to c650 Heads of ESG & Sustainability based in the UK. An […]
LONDON: 07 March 2022, our latest Comms Futures Pulse indicates that nearly one in two senior communications leaders (44%) are struggling with cancel culture. Some are less concerned and appear to shrug ‘it’ off but other comms leaders speak with grim realism on how cancel culture affecting them in the highly charged and uncertain world […]
21 February 2022, our recent Business Leaders Pulse makes for a conservative view on increasing staff salaries in light of a booming employment market. Just over one in four (26%) say they have increased some of their staff salaries but clearly only a select number of employees stand to benefit. On top of this, 17% […]
Tuesday 14th December 2021, in the latest Whitney Murray Insight Pulse, developed in partnership with The Pulse Business, 29% of UK-based Communications & IR leaders say finding the next superstars for their team is top priority with 26% singling out their sustainability strategy as demanding attention. One Agency CEO with regional offices across the UK […]
A bevy of self-declared ESG pioneers are overwhelmingly positive offers an encouraging headline from our most recent Sustainability Trends Tracker 2021. Yet for most, this, the road to Sustainable Practice is an ongoing transition. Many are ready, willing and able to develop/follow an action plan and committed to becoming Net Zero – but there are […]
Our latest Communications Index Pulse indicates that the majority of agency CEOs (54%) now expect over half of roles inside their businesses to be filled by remote workers. One in three CEOs (33%) believe more than 25% of these roles could be filled by overseas workers. Overwhelmingly, the vast majority of agency CEOs (83%) expect […]
As PR agencies and in-house teams embrace the ‘new’ office environment post pandemic, we asked for the latest thinking on what a hybrid working model could look like. We collected a range of opinions including this from a Senior Director working in-house: “We aim to return to an office based culture but have delayed this […]
Thirty percent of Heads of Sustainability and ESG Consultants see themselves as pioneers, according to The Pulse Business Sustainability Tracker, designed to capture and measure best practice across ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance). Access the full results here… A further fifty-five percent declared themselves ‘mid-transformation’, painting a positive picture of how some UK PLCs are […]
Our recent Pulse of senior communications practitioners has found that 39% of senior comms leaders are less than communicative when it comes to talking about their feelings at work. Communications leaders cite leadership responsibilities as one of the reasons for putting on a brave face when they are actually feeling anything but courageous. Others say […]
April 29th 2021 – The PR and Comms industry’s ability to enact changes and react to circumstances appear to be contributing towards its upbeat state with a third of respondents (32%) feeling ‘very positive’ about the future of their business over the next 12 months and another 58% feeling ‘quite positive’. This compares to 24% […]
March 23, 2021: Online shopping is truly a part of every day life with one in three leaders (32%) saying it will be the shopping experience of choice post lockdown. Around one in four (26%) also say that focussing on mental health and wellbeing is now a top priority according to The Pulse Business’ Senior […]
A cry for freedom and a more balanced view of the world sits uppermost in one Director’s mind, “We have to get back to being human, living with pathogens and understanding that you cannot control everything. I say that as someone who hates getting colds! Importantly, we need to get viruses to build our immune […]