Burnout in PR, office attendance, Trading Tracker and more – PRWeek podcast

<p>Big themes and stories in comms from the past week or so are put under the microscope in the latest edition of Noise in Brief, PRWeek UK’s bite-sized podcast.</p><p>Noise in Brief – a shorter offshoot of PRWeek’s Beyond the Noise podcast – is released fortnightly and features PRWeek journalists discussing major issues from the previous seven days or so.</p><p>Download the podcast via&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/beyond-the-noise-the-prweek-podcast/id1513615965" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apple</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0onUHcQsn5ITC1lYtW89jZ?si=c965c18c49724d2c&nd=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or listen on your favourite platform.</p><p>This week’s episode features PRWeek UK news editor Siobhan Holt and reporters Evie Barrett and Elizabeth Wiredu.</p><p>To mark World Mental Health Day (10 October), the team chat about Women in PR’s new campaign, which aims to “tackle burnout”, and the results of the organisation’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prweek.com/article/1840011/two-thirds-senior-pr-women-almost-quit-citing-burnout-wipr-reveals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">latest research.&nbsp;</a></p><p>The trio discuss what&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prweek.com/article/1840021/world-mental-health-day-%E2%80%93-23-pr-pros-offer-23-words-advice" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">advice comms professionals</a>&nbsp;have on tackling mental health struggles in the industry.</p><p>In the podcast, they focus on Publicis Groupe’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prweek.com/article/1839736/grayling-hope-glory-red-havas-finn-partners-%E2%80%93-agency-bosses-mandated-in-office-working" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announcement</a>&nbsp;that all employees will be required to return to the office three days a week, and give their views on mandating in-office workdays.</p><p>The journalists chat about the response to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prweek.com/article/1839446/reductive-simplistic-tokenistic-%E2%80%93-black-history-month-campaigns" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black History Month brand campaigns</a>, and analyse the latest edition of PRWeek’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prweek.com/article/1839653/pitching-rise-prweek-top-150-monthly-trading-tracker" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Top 150 Monthly Trading Tracker</a>, which reveals how long clients are taking to pay and the frequency of new business pitches.</p><p><br></p> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>