On the back of significant growth over the last 18 months, we couldn’t be more pleased to announce the appointment of Louise White to Comma and the communications recruitment industry. With the majority of communications recruitment specialists based in London and the...
Read our latest news, thoughts and experiences.
Could Employee Experience be your next career move?
Comma Partners, the internal communications specialists, is holding a series of career sessions for IC pros throughout quarter one. The first of these sessions focused on the Employee Experience, a new discipline that might hold the potential for a new and exciting...
Virginia celebrates success with internal communication peers at the simplys
It's been a while since I've been to an award ceremony but attendance at the simplys last week reminded me how very exciting and rewarding it is to be recognised by your peers. I was delighted to be asked to join the judges' panel and congratulate Sam Fletcher, who...
Reflections on 15 years in internal communications and recruitment
This year marks the 15th year of Comma Partners - a good time I think to reflect on the changes I’ve seen in internal communications. As a recruiter, I immediately think of LinkedIn. One of my first jobs in 2007 was to build a list of interim prospects on what was...
Andy Macleod joins Comma Partners
In 2021 Comma Partners welcomed Andy Macleod to the business in a new Director role. Andy has been part of the internal communications industry for over 20 years. Most recently he was Director at Gallagher (previously Gatehouse), specialising in internal...
How the Pandemic Affected Microsoft UK
With Paul Downey, Head of Employee Communications I was delighted to catch up with Paul Downey, Microsoft UK’s Head of Employee Communications recently to explore how the pandemic has impacted his business and specifically how Paul’s team had adapted employee...
Self-employed and contracting with a single company? Read on. IR35 affects you.
The change in IR35 (off-payroll) rules was not welcomed by the communication, engagement and change industry which has long been populated by contractors using their own limited companies to cover vacancies or maternity leave, support growth and recovery through...
Communicating with virtual & ‘hard to reach’ employees
Here at Comma we talked with our member network to discover how businesses have been communicating to two key audiences during the COVID pandemic. The traditional ‘hard to reach’ employees (those at the front line, the shopfloor workers, the shift workers), and the...
Coaching Tips and Tricks
Virginia Hicks, Comma's MD, talks to coach, Edith Wilkinson, to understand more about confidence - why it comes and goes - and what we can do to help ourselves. Q1: How would you describe confidence? A1: I think that outward confidence comes from an inner feeling of...