Entrepreneur and celebrity Alan Sugar has dismissed PriceWaterhouseCoopers' decision to give workers Friday afternoons off throughout summer as a ‘bloody joke’.
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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Between 1 June and 31 August, the PwC's 22,000 staff will be able to stop working at lunchtime.
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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.
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Share option gulf underlines failure of gender pay gap to close in UK.
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Employment tribunals in which employees alleged they were discriminated against for being ‘neurodiverse’ rose by a third last year.
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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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Slight widening of gap since 2014, as the ONS reveals that the disability pay gap has consistently been wider for disabled men than for disabled women.
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High sickness absence rates has led to cancelled flights and a row with the pilots' union at budget airline easyJet.
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The Home Office tells French multinational Teleperformance to hire more staff in a bid to tackle Passport Office backlog.
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A Network Rail regional director of communications has told rail workers about to take part in a national strike ballot...
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Transport secretary Grant Shapps calls on P&O Ferries chief executive to resign but first to return furlough cash.
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Home Office employees speak out over Priti Patel's plan for asylum seekers.
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Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi tells MPs he didn't know why his department's staff had the highest stay-at-home rate among civil servants.
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New appointments in the field of HR including a major role at Santander UK and a strategic leadership appointment at St John Ambulance.
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As hybrid working is frowned upon by Jacon Rees-Mogg, research suggests executives spend more time working from home than the employees they are urging to return to the office.