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Adam McCulloch

Adam McCulloch
Adam McCulloch

Adam McCulloch is a freelance writer and production editor who has worked in sectors including travel (The Guardian), aviation (Flight International), agriculture (Farmers' Weekly), music (Jazzwise), theatre (The Stage) and social work (Community Care). He also works for a national newspaper and is the author of KentWalksNearLondon

    • Sexual harassment
    • Latest News
    • Discipline and grievances

    Employment tribunal: use of word ‘bald’ can amount to sex-based harassment

    by Adam McCulloch 13 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 13 May 2022

    An employment tribunal has ruled that an electrician dismissed for gross misconduct had been subject to sex harassment because he was bald.

    • Civil Service
    • Working from home
    • Hybrid working

    Rees-Mogg under fire from civil service leader over hybrid working

    by Adam McCulloch 13 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 13 May 2022

    Ministers risk driving ‘good people’ out of Whitehall with their criticism of working at home, the first civil service commissioner...

    • Offices
    • Working from home
    • Business continuity

    Tesco to pioneer office space in local stores

    by Adam McCulloch 13 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 13 May 2022

    Tesco and office space firm IWG team-up to trial a scheme in a suburban London supermarket.

    • Financial services
    • STEM
    • Right to work

    Fears over skills as visa application times double for spouses

    by Adam McCulloch 12 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 12 May 2022

    Processing times at the Home Office for those wishing to join family working in the UK have doubled, leaving those with job offers in the UK having to renegotiate starting dates.

    • Gig economy
    • Collective bargaining
    • Latest News

    Deliveroo signs deal with union GMB to cover self-employed riders

    by Adam McCulloch 12 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 12 May 2022

    Food delivery business Deliveroo has agreed a recognition deal with trade union GMB covering the company’s 90,000 drivers and riders....

    • Apprenticeships
    • Climate emergency
    • Economics, government & business

    Green energy jobs given lift by new Delivery Group

    by Adam McCulloch 12 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 12 May 2022

    The Green Jobs Delivery Group, with business, industry, union and academia involvement, has been tasked with supporting the delivery of up to 480,000 skilled green jobs by 2030.

    • Working from home
    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News

    Are we happy now? New research Sugar-coats working from home

    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022

    If Alan Sugar is enjoying raging about hybrid working, he'll really love reading the latest happiness at work findings… 

    • Financial services
    • Sectors
    • Latest News

    KPMG offers pay rises of £2k or £4k to 15,800 UK staff

    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022

    KPMG's partners will not be eligible for the increase as the company moves to gain competitive edge in the ‘battle for talent’.

    • Learning management systems
    • HR software
    • Latest News

    Productivity blighted by users’ tech problems, research reveals

    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022

    Businesses are losing millions of working hours each week because of employees’ difficulties adopting software, it has been claimed.

    • Working from home
    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News

    Alan Sugar calls PwC Friday afternoons off a ‘joke‘

    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022

    Entrepreneur and celebrity Alan Sugar has dismissed PriceWaterhouseCoopers' decision to give workers Friday afternoons off throughout summer as a ‘bloody joke’.

    • Financial services
    • Working from home
    • Business continuity

    PwC staff to benefit from extended summer hours policy

    by Adam McCulloch 5 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 5 May 2022

    Between 1 June and 31 August, the PwC's 22,000 staff will be able to stop working at lunchtime.

    • Sectors
    • Economics, government & business
    • Latest News

    Latest job advert figures point to growing economic uncertainty

    by Adam McCulloch 5 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 5 May 2022

    The number of active job advertisements across the UK has risen steadily since late March 2022 but the lower level of new job ads suggests gathering fears over the economy.

    • Gender pay gap
    • Latest News
    • Benefits

    Twice as many men as women hold company share options

    by Adam McCulloch 3 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 3 May 2022

    Share option gulf underlines failure of gender pay gap to close in UK.

    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News
    • Neurodiversity

    Steep rise in employment tribunal claims over neurodiversity discrimination

    by Adam McCulloch 2 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 2 May 2022

    Employment tribunals in which employees alleged they were discriminated against for being ‘neurodiverse’ rose by a third last year.

    • Latest News
    • Employee communications
    • Discipline and grievances

    Who doesn’t use emojis now?

    by Adam McCulloch 29 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 29 Apr 2022

    Emoticons have crept into standard use thanks to Twitter, WhatsApp and the global pandemic. What does this tell us about business communications?

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