A festive read: Our most-loved EX Space blogs of the year

Katie Austin

Minutes
22nd December 2025
Employee Experience
Employee Engagement
Internal Communications

As we start to wind down for a well-earned festive break, now feels like the perfect moment to pause, reflect and do a little gentler kind of learning. So grab a mince pie, wrap your hands around a cuppa, and settle in. 

Over the past year, thousands of EX, IC, HR and People professionals have spent time reading our blogs, questioning assumptions, exploring what’s changing, and thinking differently about what good really looks like at work.

Below, we’ve pulled together our 10 most-read blogs of the year — the pieces that sparked the biggest conversations, resonated most deeply, and kept coming back up in sessions, Clinics and community chats.

If you missed any first time around (or want to revisit them with fresh eyes), this is a great place to start.
1. The Future of Internal Comms Is People-First — Are You In?
A clear line in the sand. This piece explores why traditional IC models are no longer enough — and what it really means to shift to a people-first mindset in an era of AI, complexity and constant change.

2. Is Internal Comms Facing Its Blockbuster Moment?
One of our most talked-about provocations of the year. A candid look at what happens when professions fail to evolve — and the uncomfortable (but necessary) questions IC needs to ask itself right now.

3. Lessons from EX Visionary Damon Deaner: Crafting an EX Playbook & Toolkit
A practical, insight-rich reflection on what it takes to move EX from theory into something teams can actually use — grounded in clarity, consistency and real organisational context.

4. Turning Employee Feedback into Action: Putting Your Engagement Survey Data to Work
A practical, no-nonsense read for anyone tired of surveys that go nowhere — focused on how to close the loop, build trust, and turn insight into meaningful, visible change.

5. Wellbeing by Design: Moving Beyond Tick-Box Initiatives
A reminder that wellbeing isn’t a campaign or a poster. This piece resonated with anyone frustrated by surface-level approaches — and curious about what it means to design work that genuinely supports people.

6. Creating a Consumer-Grade Internal Communication Experience
Why do we accept clunky, jargon-filled experiences at work when we wouldn’t tolerate them anywhere else? A sharp, practical read on raising the bar for internal communication.

7. From Theory to Practice: What It Really Takes to Do EX Well
One for anyone who’s ever thought “this all sounds great… but how do we actually do it?” A grounded look at the mindsets, muscles and structures needed to make EX stick.

8. Beyond the Numbers: What Today’s Benchmarks Reveal About EX & Engagement
A data-informed piece that goes beyond scores and dashboards — asking what benchmarks really tell us, and how insight can (and should) translate into meaningful action.

9. Shaping the Future of Work: Why Employee Experience Is the Key
A big-picture read connecting EX to the wider shifts shaping work today — from expectations and trust to technology and purpose.

10. Employee Experience Is Broken — Here’s What Comes Next
One of our most shared blogs of the year. Honest, challenging, and forward-looking — this piece struck a chord with practitioners who know something needs to change, but aren’t willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

A Final Thought...

If there’s a thread running through all of these reads, it’s this: the work is changing — and so is what it asks of us.

As we head into the new year, we hope these blogs give you space to reflect, feel validated, and maybe even get quietly excited about what’s possible next.

Thanks for reading, questioning, sharing — and for being part of The EX Space community. 💛

We’ll see you on the other side of the festive break.