Across this year's winners, including American Electric Power, ALDI SÜD, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, and Bellway, the organizations leading employee experience have solved what most still can't. They reach every employee, including the frontline, and what sets them apart is whether their people adopt and trust the channels they've built.
NEW YORK, June 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Staffbase, the first AI-native employee experience platform, today announced the winners of its 2026 VOICES Awards across four regional events representing the Americas, Asia Pacific and Japan, DACH, and UKIMEA. Taken together, this year’s winning programs point to a clear shift in what separates the strongest employee experience efforts from the rest: reaching the whole workforce, including the frontline, is the entry point, while leadership is ultimately defined by whether employees adopt the platform, trust it, and act on what they find there.
Across all four regions, the majority of winning programs registered 80 to 100% of their workforce on their employee experience platform. That reach includes deskless and frontline workers that legacy intranets routinely leave behind. Achieving that level of workforce coverage is something most organizations can’t claim. Beyond registration numbers, the winning programs showed sustained adoption, with employees returning to the platform, trusting the information there, and embedding it into their daily workflows and operational processes. The shift reflects a broader move in the profession, as internal communication becomes a trusted destination rather than a broadcast channel.
