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Adam McCulloch

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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!

    • Hybrid working
    • USA
    • Employee engagement

    Amazon joins Google in demanding more office attendance

    by Adam McCulloch 11 Aug 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 11 Aug 2023

    Amazon has become the latest tech giant to enforce a more rigid approach to staff attendance in its offices.

    • Latest News
    • Holidays and holiday pay
    • Workplace culture

    Are you in the office for Wine Wednesday or Thirsty Thursday?

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Aug 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Aug 2023

    The silly season is here and Personnel Today has been told that Mongolia is best for cheap holidays, Wednesday is the best day for heading to the office for wine, and we need a day off on full pay … to do things.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention

    ‘Unfair, untrustworthy’: candidates’ verdict on AI in recruitment

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Aug 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Aug 2023

    Job applicants perceive the algorithmic decision-making in the AI-driven recruitment process as less fair than methods with full human involvement. 

    • Career development
    • Coaching and mentoring
    • Latest News

    UK employees focus on current, not future, skills

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Aug 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Aug 2023

    UK workers are primarily focusing on current skills needs in their roles instead of long-term career growth, new research has found.

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Job creation and losses

    High street giant Wilko likely to enter administration

    by Adam McCulloch 3 Aug 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 3 Aug 2023

    Some 12,000 jobs could be at risk as the budget retailer searches for fresh investment.

    • STEM
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Tech firms need to work harder to engage women

    by Adam McCulloch 3 Aug 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 3 Aug 2023

    The skills gap in tech could be closed if more women were attracted into the sector, but employers are short of plans to improve the gender split.

    • Financial services
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Ethics

    Nigel Farage: Diversity and inclusion under fire in the guise of ‘woke’ banks

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Jul 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Jul 2023

    Is there really more to the Nigel Farage-Coutts saga than just a personality-focused media frenzy and a breach of client confidentiality? And where does HR sit amid the furore?

    • NHS
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Ministers boost social care workforce with £600m plan

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Jul 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Jul 2023

    The £600m funding will include a £570m workforce fund over two years, distributed to local authorities, and £30m funding for local authorities in the most challenged health systems.

    • Financial services
    • Latest News
    • Professional services

    IFS study: inequality in pay growth across UK

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Jul 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Jul 2023

    There has been a rise in geographical inequality in earnings with the fastest-rising pay rates being those of already well remunerated London-based business employees.

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Violence at work

    Shop workers facing a wave of in-store crime

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Jul 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Jul 2023

    A freedom of information request by Co-op has highlighted that police failed to respond to 71% of reported serious retail crimes.

    • Stress
    • Long Covid
    • Latest News

    Long-term sickness: sharp rise in people with multiple conditions

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Jul 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Jul 2023

    There was an increase of over 400,000 people unable to work because of long-term conditions since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the ONS found.

    • Employee relations
    • Collective bargaining
    • Dispute resolution

    Unite: Labour policy document ‘crosses red lines’

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Jul 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Jul 2023

    Unite sounds dissenting voice over Labour's National Policy Forum

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention

    The dangers of faking it on LinkedIn

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Jul 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Jul 2023

    Thanks to AI image generators we can have smoother skin, expensive jewellery, designer outfits, and exotic backgrounds.

    • Latest News
    • Global mobility
    • Immigration

    UK is the most expensive world location for expatriates

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Jul 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Jul 2023

    Factors such as rent, tax and education, make the UK the most expensive global destination for relocating senior employees.

    • Minimum service levels
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    Minimum service levels to be imposed as Strikes Act passes

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Jul 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Jul 2023

    The aim of the legislation is to impose minimum levels of service during industrial action by ambulance staff, firefighters, railway workers and those in other sectors deemed essential.

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