Tea drones, robots, fresh food growing on walls … futurists have their say on the future of the office.
Adam McCulloch
Adam McCulloch
Adam McCulloch first worked for Personnel Today magazine in the early 1990s as a sub editor. He rejoined Personnel Today as a writer in 2017, covering all aspects of HR but with a special interest in diversity, social mobility and industrial relations. He has ventured beyond the HR realm to work as a freelance writer and production editor in sectors including travel (The Guardian), aviation (Flight International), agriculture (Farmers' Weekly), music (Jazzwise), theatre (The Stage) and social work (Community Care). He is also the author of KentWalksNearLondon. Adam first became interested in industrial relations after witnessing an exchange between Arthur Scargill and National Coal Board chairman Ian McGregor in 1984, while working as a temp in facilities at the NCB, carrying extra chairs into a conference room!
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Talks aimed at merging the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) with the GMB union have ended.
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A decision to increase the state pension age to 68 has been put back, the government has announced.
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Senior HR job moves in spring 2023 including News UK and CrossCountry
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The decision by Levi Strauss to use models generated by artificial intelligence has been criticised by an HR consultancy.
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Consultancy giant plans sweeping job cuts as uncertainty in global markets afflicts clients.
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Investment in skills and businesses is vital if the UK is not to suffer a debilitating brain drain, say MPs.
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A new survey has highlighted a potential spanner in the works for efforts to retain older workers: the ‘woke’ workplace.
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Report urges ministers to focus on initiatives to alleviate workloads and ways of mitigating the profession's lack of flexible work opportunities.
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More than 100 organisations and businesses have signed up to the Age-friendly Employer Pledge in its first 100 days.  
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Amazon workers in the UK are set for further industrial action after a salary increase for warehouse workers, of 50p an hour, was described as ‘insulting’.
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Although the government has introduced the Seafarers Wages Bill, unions say ministers have failed to act over the unlawful sackings of P&O Ferries employees one year ago.
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Passport Office workers will go on strike for five weeks, from 3 April to 5 May in a dispute over...
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The UK government’s decision to remove social media platform TikTok from all work devices has triggered calls for businesses to do the same.
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Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, said the figure was ‘just a fraction of the number lost from the workforce in the past couple of years’.