Corporate communicators hope for more help, Ragan survey shows

If I’ve heard it from one communicator, I’ve heard it from a thousand: There’s too much to do, too little time and not nearly enough people to get it all done.

As Joe Biden likes to say, that’s not hyperbole. Ragan Communications actually asked a thousand communicators to share their views on their jobs, their biggest challenges, what’s working and what’s not. It’s all in the 2022 edition of Ragan’s Communications Benchmark survey, and you can download the executive summary.

There’s a lot of good stuff in this report. Here are four takeaways to get you started:

1. Get well, be well. After more than two years of a pandemic, social unrest, economic upheaval and all the rest, we can draw one big conclusion: Everyone’s tired. As in exhausted.