Axios HQ acquired Mixing Board to expand the only B2B comms solution by, for, and with communicators
Mixing Board founder Sean Garrett will become Axios HQ’s Chief Communication Officer and continue on in his role as President of Mixing Board.
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8 employee engagement activities for team newsletters
Engaging employees has always been difficult. With hybrid and remote work, it’s getting even harder for organizations to actively reach and engage them.
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What 8.7M email deliveries say about engaging staff communication
Some 90% of employees rank work-life balance among their top priorities, according to data from Forbes Health-Ipsos Monthly Health Tracker.
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Generative AI is your assistant, not your replacement
As generative AI becomes more and more capable, communicators and leaders are sprinting to understand how it will impact — or elevate — their work.
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Raise the bar on what’s worthy of readers’ time
The more non-essential detail you include in internal communications, the more you dilute it — making it hard for readers to find what matters and get back to work.
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Educators' top tool for better family, faculty and student comms
Educators get 100+ emails every day, students get pummeled with ad hoc emails, and both are feeling a sense of information overload.
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Jim VandeHei: 'Everything I know as CEO, I learned as a reporter'
Hear how Axios CEO Jim VandeHei 'built it,' from a journalism career at The Wall Street Journal to three powerhouse startups — Politico, Axios, and Axios HQ.
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Stewart Butterfield on the overhead cost of big teams and bad communication
As orgs expand, adding new employees, new teams, or entirely new departments, the job of a communicator becomes more and more complex — and more critical.
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The post-pandemic power of internal communication teams
Chief Communication Officer salaries are soaring — with more than one-third seeing base salaries of $450,000 in 2023 — up from 18% in 2014-2015.
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Overhauling internal communications will be your greatest revenue-driver
Ineffective communication affects your bottom line. Eliminate what you don’t need, keep your teams focused, and your organization will be stronger than ever.
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Jim VandeHei: "The Art of Smart Brevity" TEDx Talk
A war for attention is raging. Smart Brevity® — a unique communication style — busts through. CEO Jim VandeHei breaks down how it works on TEDx.
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A better way to communicate
A smart, brief discussion on the shifting communications landscape and how innovative companies are keeping up. Watch now.
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Greater employee bandwidth starts with stronger communication
For alignment, productivity, and accountability, teams need 'documented goals that cascade from the top all the way down,' Axios HQ CEO Roy Schwartz said.
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How orgs like Shopify are reducing meetings to save millions
Unproductive meetings are costing organizations a lot — nearly $2.5 million each year if you have 100 employees and $100 million if you have 5,000.
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10 internal communications ideas leaders can adopt in 2025
Here are 10 creative internal communication ideas for connecting employees and departments through vertical and lateral channels.
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How to understand your employees’ communication styles
Only 26% of employees strongly agree their manager's feedback is helping them do better work, Gallup reports.
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10 internal communication challenges preventing team alignment
Check out these 10 internal communication barriers hindering your employee’s productivity and engagement.
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2024 Trends: 4 global issues impacting employee communications
The coming year will be one unlike any other — with major political, economic, and financial factors impacting jobs and organizations across the board.
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How to lead and communicate through crisis
The way you share essential communications and lead in uncertainty will decide if your team stays focused or starts to fray.
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The powerful role of strategic communication plays in a successful M&A deal
M&A is a strategic growth lever, but 70%–90% of all deals fail to hit goal, post-close. This guide breaks down how comms can to safeguard your investment.
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Only 14% of employees feel aligned with their organization's goals
Axios HQ released its annual state of internal communications report, analyzing how effective business leaders are at communicating with staff, the impact it’s having, and how to do better.
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Clear internal communication can lower stress in the workplace
Nearly 12 billion working days are lost per year due to stress-related illnesses like depression and anxiety, costing $1 trillion in lost productivity.
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Internal communications statistics: findings from Axios HQ 2025 annual report
Here are the internal communications statistics you must be aware of to retain employees, drive alignment, and boost engagement.
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Leaders' top priority should be strong internal communications
You could have the smartest people, strongest strategy, endless capital — but your team is set up to fail without clear communication.
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The true cost of poor team alignment (and how to fix it)
Poor employee alignment affects employee engagement, productivity, and business performance. Here are 5 things successful organizations do differently.
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Headlines should teach readers something new
A headline is your first, maybe only, shot to grab a reader, pull them in and prove what’s to come is worth their time.
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2024 election: Build your internal comms strategy now
In an election year, everything executives say and do can feel political — making it even more important they have a plan in place.
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Hybrid 2.0: The role managers play in modern communication
“They are charging us with being more direct… but they want it to come from people they trust in our organization,” says Deisha Barnett, UPS president of comms.
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Character.AI CEO: “I think I got OpenAI started on that path”
Noam Shazeer co-invented the Transformer at Google — you know it as the T in GPT — after unpacking questions that sparked a language processing revolution.
Read moreHow to run your internal communications like a newsroom
Being forthright, clear, and concise will earn you the trust of a reader — it worked for our newsroom, and it makes our internal comms more engaging.
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HQ raises $20 million in Series A funding
Axios HQ raised $20 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Glade Brook Capital Partners and Greycroft Partners. Learn more about the future of HQ.
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How to bridge the communication gap in remote and hybrid cultures
Around 28% of employees have a hybrid work schedule and nearly 13% are remote — all while 30% say they want the ability to work from home full-time.
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How to measure employee engagement
Learn how to measure employee engagement levels in 6 ways to get an accurate picture of employee sentiment before it's too late.
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AI in every workspace: Plan how it will impact internal comms
Around 75% of executives think AI will help their organization expand into more business sectors, and 85% think that AI will give them a competitive edge.
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AMA with Lyft: 6 questions on internal comms
We’re taking stock of the internal communication strategies that will help teams survive — and thrive — in our new Hybrid 2.0 work culture.
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5 leadership lessons to level up your communications in 2023
Leaders say that better employee engagement is the number one benefit they start to see when their organization’s essential communications are highly effective.
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Internal communication challenges facing software and high-growth tech companies
When internal communication breaks down, so does productivity and innovation. In software and high-growth tech companies, the stakes are even higher.
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AI's place in the world, media, and professional communications
Axios Co-founder Mike Allen and Axios HQ CEO Roy Schwartz dug into the future of AI at Axios’ AI+ Summit in New York.
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4 internal comms challenges facing healthcare — and how to address them
Telehealth is here to stay, new medical technologies are being added, and staffing shortages result in the need to get new employees up and running quickly.
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The communication channels employees want leaders to use
Ineffective communication is costing U.S. businesses over $15,000 per employee in lost productivity each year, according to IDC and OECD.org data.
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6 internal comms challenges facing the financial services industry — and how to address them
Banking has gone digital, investor meetings are online, and hybrid workforces are distributed — complicating how communicators reach their stakeholders.
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8 ways leaders can improve employee engagement and retention in 2025
Discover eight data-backed strategies to boost employee engagement and retention in your organization.
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6 internal communication tools to boost team engagement
Internal communications tools relay critical information between a company’s leadership and employees. These 6 tools are a must-have for the modern workplace.
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5 consequences of ineffective workplace communication
Workers spend about 20 hours each week using digital communication tools. Leaders need to learn to use them effectively, or they'll both waste time.
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Crises: Internal communications should be every exec’s first step
For leaders, navigating any social or political conflict is just as challenging to get right as it is important. That's why you need a plan now.
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7 essential leadership communication skills to inspire and engage teams
Effective communication from leaders affects employee alignment, engagement, and productivity. Here are the 7 vital leadership communication skills.
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The workplace communication topics that engage employees the most
Only 20% of employees strongly agree their leaders send efficient comms — with ineffective communication costing orgs $15,000+ per employee per year.
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How AI will impact workplace communication
Generative AI’s market size is expected to skyrocket to $110 billion by 2030 — up from $7.9 billion in 2021, according to Acumen Research.
Read moreEmployees are quitting over ineffective workplace communication
About 60% of employees say the updates they get from their leaders aren't effective. Some admit they’ve fully stopped reading some internal communications.
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Earn stakeholder buy-in when evolving your communication strategy
Over 75% of leaders say their org’s communications are helpful, relevant, and include the context teams need to do their job well. Only 46% of employees agree.
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An employee-ranked list of topics they want to hear from leaders
Nearly 50% of leaders say the biggest challenge they face when sharing vital, internal communications is understanding what’s actually important to employees.
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5 workplace communication platforms to break silos and enhance collaboration
Looking for workplace communication platforms to improve team collaboration? Explore 5 top options and learn how to choose the right tools for your team.
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Uber’s advice for on-site planning with your leadership team
Planning is not super effective over Zoom. You can get more done in half a day, in-person than multiple Zooms where everybody's distracted.
Read moreHow smart communication can boost workplace productivity
A solid culture or center of gravity is crucial to org-wide productivity, but it’s tough to keep strong. That puts a premium on clear, effective communication.
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Axios HQ's new AI features elevate your essential communications
As generative AI gains momentum in every industry, we are proud Axios HQ is at the forefront, of helping hundreds of organizations use AI for internal communication.
Read moreThe war for attention: how to be a skillful communicator
In this era of nonstop noise, everyone must be a skillful communicator, yet most struggle at it. Here are a few tips you can use to bust through the noise.
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How leaders can learn from 2024 for better communication in 2025
To make your 2025 communication strategy a success, you need to figure out what went well — and not so well — in 2024.
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Cross-cultural communication in the workplace: 5 inclusivity tips for communication leaders
The rise in team diversity has made cross-cultural communication critical in modern workplaces. So here are 5 inclusivity tips for communication leaders.
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Surviving the communications hellscape
Businesses are changing faster than ever, juiced in part by AI and anticipation of its future. That makes communication with teams all the more important.
Read moreHow strategic comms leaders are using AI — and pulling ahead
To understand the state of AI in workplace comms, we partnered with Off The Record to survey 171 communication leaders.
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Cadence is key: How Chobani keeps staff and stakeholders aligned
Without a consistent cadence, employees — especially ones in unique locations like warehouses — don’t know where to look for critical information.
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Employee feedback examples leaders can use to build a winning workplace culture
80% of the employees who received feedback every week reported being engaged. Here are 8 employee feedback examples and types employees expect.
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How to build employee engagement with internal communication
Employee engagement has plummeted to its lowest level since 2013. Here are 9 ways to reverse this and build employee engagement with internal communication
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Anthropic’s CEO on the future of AI in the workplace
Generative AI is supercharging productivity. Early MIT papers show AI's potential to reduce inequality between workers and shift people’s focus to high-value tasks.
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McKinsey: Smart internal communication metrics to measure success
Click-through and open rates are valuable ways to measure engagement with internal communications, but diversifying those metrics is even more powerful.
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Your change management plan: How to communicate a restructure
People are less resistant to operational shifts when they share ownership of them. The more ownership your team feels of a new structure, the greater your chance will be for its success.
Read moreGallup CEO: Managers are key for communication success
Clear messaging is crucial to keeping teams aligned, engaged, and informed — but an often overlooked collaborator in cascading information is managers.
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How to better engage frontline workers with your communications
Communication professionals agree that better supporting dissatisfied frontline workers is one of the top eight issues they’ll face this year.
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Poor communication creates workplace errors
Only 7% of U.S. workers strongly agree communication is accurate, timely, or open at their organization, according to Gallup.
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Employees lose over a month each year dealing with ineffective internal communication
Time wasted is money wasted — and at an employee and a leadership level, a lot of both is getting lost.
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7 ways to measure the success of internal communications
Internal communications can be hard to track. Click rates and open rates are valuable metrics, but they don't show a complete picture of an important story.
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What internal communication is and why it’s important
Poor internal communication costs U.S. businesses over $15,000 per employee. Here are 11 reasons to build effective internal communications.
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6 things to look for when using AI-powered communication software
AI can quickly enhance operations, but left unbridled, it has the potential to create more of everything rather than the best version of the right things.
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How to improve internal communications
Looking for practical ways to improve internal communication in your company? This article covers nine proven techniques.
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How to identify your organization's most essential communications
Essential communications are the updates that keep an organization’s employees and stakeholders aligned — elevating the details they need to succeed.
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Jen Psaki on when and how leaders should tackle tough political topics at work
Leaders need to keep their hands on the wheel during a politically charged election year and communicate in a way that builds and preserves trust.
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Hybrid work: 2023 will be all about async
As the year kicks off, we’re taking stock of where we’ve been — and what’s ahead — for modern internal communication strategies.
Read moreBill Gates, Elon Musk, and who’s right about the future of AI
Bill Gates thinks AI is the most important advancement in decades. Elon Musk thinks it’s moving way too fast. They could both be right, in their own way.
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Business communication software makes or breaks workplace culture
Organizations with strong company culture see strong metrics — like an 85% net profit increase over five years, Gallup found.
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How to write employee survey questions they'll want to answer
Over 35% of employees say one of the top ways leaders at their organization can improve is by giving them the opportunity to provide feedback.
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The key role managers play in communication and employee success
Technology was supposed to be the magical cure that kept folks informed in today’s hybrid work environment. We may have gone too far.
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8 internal communication best practices for success in 2025
Discover core internal communications best practices that enhance team engagement.
Read moreHow influential leaders communicate with purpose
From company culture to addressing complex issues, leaders who communicate with purpose have the best chance of preventing staff from leaving.
Read moreReinforce, not repeat: Smart ways to cascade key internal updates
Only 7% of U.S. workers say they believe communication is accurate, timely, and transparent where they work, according to Gallup.
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The high cost of slipping employee engagement
To fight The Great Resignation, leaders must have priorities that serve their business and inspire their teams — and be able to communicate them clearly.
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Generative AI prompts to try for internal communications
By 2025, 30% of outbound marketing from large organizations could be synthetically generated — and AI-powered employee communications might not be far behind.
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Hybrid teams need heroic leaders
2022 is one of the toughest years to lead an organization — with hybrid work, inflation, and COVID disruptions making it harder to build strong culture.
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8 employee engagement ideas in the workplace
50% of employees admit they’ve gone through phases of doing the bare minimum at work. Here are 8 employee engagement ideas to prevent this.
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Internal communication strategies that keeps teams better aligned
Smart, effective internal communications can be the connection your employees need to stay engaged, productive, and aligned on company values and goals.
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Subject lines: Keep yours searchable and scannable
If you flub a subject line, nothing else you write will matter. Maximize their potential — use them to save your team time and get them smarter, faster.
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Why leaders are bad communicators
Every organization in the world needs to rethink — quickly and dramatically — how it communicates to its employees, donors, customers and shareholders.
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How to build a tech stack for multi-channel internal communications
Creating a strong tech stack is key to organization success. It’s especially important for comms leaders to have the tools they need to engage stakeholders.
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Hook your audience: Two keys to keeping busy readers engaged
Write 'What’s new' and 'Why it matters' before all else. It'll take extra work off readers’ shoulders, and they’ll reward you with their time and trust.
Read more7 best internal communication channels for effective messaging
Explore seven key internal communication channels you should use to boost employee engagement and streamline workplace operations in 2024.
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How to power your team through year-end and plan for 2023
Leaders must revise their communication strategies so staff can end the year strong, stay ambitious, and not feel totally overwhelmed.
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How to make internal communications shorter, clearer and engaging
Nearly 50% of leaders say the toughest step in sharing internal communications and keeping their teams aligned is learning to write in a concise, engaging way.
Read moreUPS and Lyft: 5 tips for stronger workplace communications
Evolving your Hybrid 2.0 workplace communication strategy is a journey, top leaders at UPS and Lyft shared a few ways we can all start the year off stronger.
Read moreThe top AI tools for your organization
By 2025, 70% of organizations will see the sustainability and ethical use of AI as among their top concerns, according to Gartner.
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28 questions to ask in your internal communications survey
Only 34% of employees worldwide feel truly engaged at work. Here are 28 internal communication survey questions to enhance the employee experience.
Read moreRelationships: The secret ingredient to great communications
Communication is among the top skills employers look for, and comms teams need to put that skill to use to build strong working relationships with stakeholders.
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Comms vs. Marketing: How to handle their evaporating boundaries
Business is moving faster than ever, and the lines between communications, brand, and marketing are blurring.
Read moreAmerican Airlines and FDRA on earning buy-in for internal communication tools
Communicators uniquely know how to craft a story, even one as notoriously hard to prove as the ROI of internal communications — but they need comms tools to do it.
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The best events to attend in 2025 for internal communicators
Nothing compares to the energy of a conference where you can connect with peers and learn from the best in the business.
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How to reduce email volume by 40% while increasing open rates
You can’t ensure messages get absorbed and acted upon unless they actually get opened and read.
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4 workplace issues impacting employee communications in 2025
2024 will be one unlike any other — with major tech advancements, team culture, and a varied work environments all poised to impact the way employees work.
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Leaders can send fewer emails, save millions, and deliver the same message
Nearly 40% of employees think their organizations send an “excessive” amount of internal communications — with 27% saying they feel overloaded.
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The one time leaders shouldn’t communicate: vacation
Around 30% of Gen Z, Gen X, and Millennial workers feel guilty not working during their vacation time, according to LinkedIn’s Workforce Confidence Index.
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Goldman Sachs Head of Corp Comms on building strong AI strategies
Good communication means setting expectations early on, showing you care about different perspectives, and building engagement between staff and leadership.
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Why senior leaders are losing time, talent, and customers in 2025
The more senior a person is, the more time they’re losing every day dealing with the impacts of ineffective communication.
Read moreThe new premium on workplace communication
In a hybrid world, leaders are wrestling with two challenges: the need to communicate more clearly and more intentionally with their staff and stakeholders.
Read moreIneffective internal comms create a massive retention risk
Employee alignment and motivation connect to productivity and profit, and they also ladder up to something equally important — retention.
Read moreApps, IMs, and intranets aren't where employees want internal communications
The average large organization had its teams using 211 different apps in 2021 — with 27% of them duplicating features from one another or adding no value at all.
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How leaders maintain trust while delivering difficult news
It’s a leader’s job to ensure teams have both the context they need to stay informed and the trust in leadership to stay the course when difficulties arise.
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4 workplace communication styles every leader must know
Here’s how to manage employees with assertive, passive, aggressive, and passive-aggressive workplace communication styles for organizational success.
Read moreGoogle and Yahoo’s 2024 email changes: A guide for internal communicators
Starting February 2024, new guidelines will impact anyone sending messages to 5,000+ personal email addresses per day. Here's what you need to know.
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Data: The best time to send an internal communication email
We analyzed the average open rates of 8.7 million email deliveries — sent via Axios HQ January 2022 to March 2023 — to find the best time to send an internal email.
Read moreInterdepartmental communication: 5 proven ways to break down workplace silos
Learn how to establish effective interdepartmental communication in 5 proven ways to prevent workplace conflict and boost organizational alignment.
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Internal vs. external communication: What's the difference?
Over a third of workers who have the ability to work from home do — but as employees stay remote, it presents a communications dilemma.
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There could be bias in your employee survey results
Data and feedback are essential to understand how your communications are performing, but it could be flawed if you don't have a culture of trust and transparency.
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Kick off your 2025 communications strategy faster and stronger
Your communication style early in the year sets the tone for what stakeholders can expect in the following months — so prepare to start off strong.
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22 employee engagement survey questions
46% of employees wish their organization did more to address employee feedback. Here are 22 employee engagement survey questions to collect actionable feedback.
Read more7 employee engagement trends shaping the modern workplace
7 critical employee engagement trends leaders need to track to maintain alignment and keep their teams inspired.
Read moreHow Smart Brevity will transform your internal communications
Smart Brevity improves productivity & alignment inside companies — creating clear, efficient internal communications that works for busy employees.
Read moreEvery company is co-creating Hybrid 2.0
For teams to survive, two leadership qualities are non-negotiable: high emotional intelligence and a tech stack that gets the most out of hybrid staff.
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How leaders can set practical internal communications goals
Here is a 6-step process for setting practical internal communication goals that align with your overall company objectives.
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The four pillars of Internal Communications Management
It has never been harder — or more vital — to keep employees and stakeholders on the same page. Economic uncertainty and distributed teams are adding complexity.
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8 internal communication trends shaping workplaces in 2025
Here are 8 emerging internal communication trends in 2024, helping C-Suite and the executive meet the evolving expectations of modern employees.
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Quiet quitting: How better communications can help fix it
Low engagement is costing the global economy $8.8 trillion yearly, according to new Gallup estimates, and is putting employees on a path toward quiet quitting.
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Remote employee engagement: How to boost employee engagement in remote and hybrid settings
When fully remote workers are both engaged and thriving, only 38% look for new job opportunities. Here are 6 effective ways to engage and retain remote employees.
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The war for engagement is driving the Great Resignation
Self-identified disengaged workers are ditching jobs faster than ever. See a few tips on how to engage employees and minimize turnover.
Read moreConversational writing will keep readers engaged
Throat-clearing context and long winding phrases get in the way of what’s new and urgent. Opt for clear, simple words wherever you can.
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Bad workplace comms waste creativity — and up to 57% of salaries
Nearly 60% of your payroll covers the cost of employees sending emails, responding to IMs, and sitting in meetings — and nobody is better off because of it.
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WeightWatchers and Domtar on communicating like a marketer
When you treat your readers like someone whose interest you need to gain, you're better positioned to figure out what connects and where you can improve.
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Stability AI's CEO on private data and looking ahead
Forty percent of C-level executives say their org will increase how much they invest in artificial intelligence, according to McKinsey research.
Read more12 bottom-line benefits of investing in internal communication
When internal communication is strong, data draws a direct line from it to a workforce that’s more aligned and to a business that delivers better results.
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Character.AI’s CEO wants to make AI way, way cheaper
“We are always working on, ‘How do we make it cheaper so we can get billions and billions of users on there for free?’” Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer says.
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Axioms cut read time and boost comprehension
Axioms build readers’ muscle memory. They act as cue cards, signaling what’s to come, improving comprehension and engagement. Read below to learn more.
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What is Internal Communications Management?
To align and activate folks on what matters most, leaders need a new strategy that staff and stakeholders aligned — Internal Communications Management.
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How to identify your organization's essential communicators — and teach them to be more effective
Most employees are hearing critical updates from executives more often than they do from the managers who work more closely with them.
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