ICYMI: Remote Work Visualized, the Global State of Internal Comms, ‘The Far Side’
5 things in comms you might’ve missed
Greetings Comms-rades!
I’m going to experiment with a new weekly dispatch called “ICYMI,” which stands for “In Case You Missed It.” Each week I’ll share just five items related to the world of comms that you might have missed. The content will be informative, practical, entertaining, and — if we’re lucky — truly impressive.
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ICYMI
1. The Global State of Internal Communications 2020
In this report, ContactMonkey highlights key trends shaping internal communications in 2020. Here’s an eye-popping statistic: Email is by far the most popular channel for internal communications in 2020, with 95% of internal communicators using email as their primary communication channel. (Long live email!)
2. The Future of Remote Work, According to Startups
In a series of charts, the team at Visual Capitalist features data from a comprehensive survey conducted by UK-based startup network Founders Forum, in which hundreds of founders and their teams revealed their experiences of remote work and their plans for a post-pandemic future. Only 8% of respondents want to work in the office full-time.
3. The Ethics of the ‘All-Staff’ Email
Martin Flegg of ggelf IC argues: “Internal communicators have an important ethical role in organisations, because we are effectively caught in the middle between the demands of leaders and management and the needs and interests of employees as stakeholders. The potential for conflicts of interest between these two groups is huge, and it often falls to us to find a way to do the right thing for both of them. In some circumstances, that might not include issuing an ‘all staff’ email.”
4. IC Under Pressure
The fun folks at Alive With Ideas compiled an A-Z catalog of project terms to help you become the Queen, or King, of comms lingo.
5 ‘The Far Side’ Returns
After 25 years in retirement, Gary Larson, creator of the beloved “The Far Side” cartoon, has returned with “new stuff.” Larson says, “The ‘New Stuff’ that you’ll see here is the result of my journey into the world of digital art. Believe me, this has been a bit of a learning curve for me. I hail from a world of pen and ink, and suddenly I was feeling like I was sitting at the controls of a 747. (True, I don’t get out much.) But as overwhelmed as I was, there was still something familiar there — a sense of adventure.”
