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‘A simple passion for getting things done’ – obituary, Francis Ingham, PRCA director-general

Obituary: Francis Ingham, director-general, PRCA, and chief executive, ICCO – who died on 16 March 2023, aged 47.

2023 Salary Survey: Pendulum swings back to employers

The 2023 PRWeek/PR Talent Salary Survey reveals a slowdown in year-over-year compensation increases and job movement plus a harder line on in-office versus remote working and wellness initiatives.

Why you should launch an agency in an economic downturn – by people who have

When the economy collapsed in 2008, the odds didn’t look good for those launching a PR agency; but 15 years on, W Communications, ZPB Associates and Firstlight are standing strong. So how did their founders kickstart these businesses during a recession, and would they recommend it to others?

Cisco's Maria Poveromo knows how to make the office a magnet, not a mandate

The CCO explains how the tech conglomerate incentivizes in-person attendance without shortchanging remote workers or enforcing a return to the office.

Employee engagement tops PR priorities

Internal communication has risen up the PR food chain in the past three years and now comprises more than half of many CCOs’ time. What is the current state of best practice and how are in-house teams structuring the work and dealing with the extra demand?

The office of the future

Companies are rethinking their physical spaces as employees return to the office.

Agencies, brands tackle post-pandemic employee wellness

PRWeek spoke to five agency and in-house teams to find out how they are addressing the challenges of hybrid working, burnout, mental health, quiet quitting, the Great Resignation and recruitment and retention.

The new guardrails between PR and HR

Recent events prompted in-house comms and HR leaders to tackle tasks such as employee engagement, recruitment and retention in unison. But who owns which processes and where are the dividing lines for each function?

‘You think it can’t possibly get any busier’ – moving from hack to flack in the permacrisis era

The recent chaos of our LinkedIn feeds has probably confirmed that PR’s prime transfer window falls at the start of the year. Amid the many practitioners hopping agencies or moving in-house, several inductees have taken the well-trodden path of moving from journalism to ‘the dark side’.

Hot off the press: PRWeek’s 22 most-read articles of 2022

From the diary of a Cannes virgin and the newest agencies to watch to the Top 150 consultancies and the biggest people moves of the year.