Haggie Partners recently commissioned FindOutNow to survey financial services professionals with the question, “Do you think your firm will need to change its internal staff communications strategy as a result of the covid19 pandemic?” Out…

One of the things I love about working in the London market is its palpable sense of community. Long ago other exchanges swapped human interaction for digital dealing. But our market still thrives on the…

On Friday 13 March this year, the four partners at Haggie Partners had a chat over the telephone and decided it would be prudent to invite our colleagues to work from home for the foreseeable…

Haggie Partners directors Becky Young and Caroline Klein recently presented to the Insurance Marketers Group on the subject of “How can communicators support business in their planning for returning – or not – to offices?”…

Social media is a powerful communication tool and we have seen even more clearly just how powerful it is since the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown began. In the UK, those who can work from home…

Mental Health Awareness Week, hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, is an annual, national week established to raise awareness of mental health and inspire action to promote good mental health for all. Each year focuses…

I was ludicrously ill-equipped for life under lockdown. I have long laboured under the weight of two principal anxieties (I’m sure there are several more minor ones). The first is a close cousin to claustrophobia.…

It is difficult to plan while we wait for clarity around possible post-lockdown workplace rules and how the country can return to normality. Nevertheless it is important that companies start to consider the long-term impact…

Communications departments have probably never been busier than during the past six weeks. Companies have had to adapt rapidly to the new “normal” with, in financial services in particular, the majority of the workforce working…

“I was extremely impressed with the recent microsite that Haggie Partners designed and built for us.” The COVID-19 outbreak is putting pressure on businesses like nothing we’ve experienced in modern times. During this challenging time…

I am two weeks into an indefinite three months of working from home. Netflix has become a staple part of everyday life. At the beginning of this incredibly weird situation, I vowed to divest away…

In the recent days we have seen impassioned pleas from scientists, medical professionals and politicians to ‘practise social distancing’, ‘avoid non-essential travel’ and ‘self-isolate’. And yet, although numbers of people outside, travelling and at work…