Agenda

One in three employees don't trust their employer. One in three lives with layoff anxiety. Twelve billion working days are lost every year to anxiety and depression. Employee engagement has just hit a ten-year low.

We are living through a Permacrisis — an extended period of instability that isn't going away. And inside that permacrisis, fear has become the defining experience of work for millions of people.

But here is the good news: fear isn't inevitable. It's the product of broken environments — and broken environments can be fixed.

This session introduces a practical framework for turning fear into trust — and makes the case that in a Permacrisis world, how people feel at work isn't a footnote to business performance. It's the foundation of it.

Jonathan will be joined by Steffen Henke, formerly Head of Digital, Employee & Live Communications at DHL Group — where he oversaw internal communications for 600,000 employees across the globe. Steffen will bring the practitioner's perspective to the conversation: what this actually looks like inside a complex, large-scale organisation, and what employee experience professionals can take back and use on Monday morning.

We're bringing together an exciting panel of customers for a chat about building a culture of trust through digital transformation. We'll be discussing: how change often happens quickly but trust is built slowly; how technology can close the trust gap, particularly for frontline employees; and how choosing the right tools helps you accomplish great things with small teams.

"Almost right" isn't good enough in the day-to-day workplace. AI only truly makes an impact when employees trust it. Martin Böhringer shows how Staffbase bridges this exact gap: with Employee AI based on company knowledge, clear governance, and an approach that works for all employees.