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.

The organisations best placed to fix them are those who recognise that the decisions made around communication, culture, and employee experience aren't soft. They're structural. The channels you build, the information you share, the trust you either create or destroy every day — these are the decisions that determine whether your people feel safe, seen, and valued. Or whether they don't.

This session will introduce 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.

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"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.