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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!

    • NHS
    • Latest News
    • Public sector

    ‘Inconsistent immigration policy since Brexit is damaging the NHS’

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    The NHS is relying on workers who originally come from countries where there is a critical shortage of health specialists.

    • Discipline
    • Latest News
    • Workplace culture

    ’Task masking’ – the trend you didn’t need to know existed

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    Task masking is a new buzzword for ‘getting out of doing something you should have been doing’. But is it really needed?

    • Latest News
    • Business continuity
    • Business travel

    HR advice for workers stranded by Heathrow airport closure

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    The fire started at an electrical substation in nearby Hayes at about 11pm last night. The airport is currently closed until 23.59pm with passengers asked not to travel to it.

    • Careers in HR
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    What do HR specialists enjoy most about their jobs?

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    Supporting employees has been named as the top reason for why people like working in HR, with recruiting new employees and growing the business a close second.

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    New rates for employment tribunal awards from April

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    The draft Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2025, which applies to England, Wales and Scotland, is now before parliament.

    • Latest News
    • Tech sector
    • Graduates

    Tech now offering fewer young people job opportunities

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    Job adverts for tech roles have plummeted in the UK over the past five years, with a 50% decline in tech job ads since 2019. 

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Sickness absence

    UK is only advanced economy where economic inactivity is increasing

    by Adam McCulloch 20 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 20 Mar 2025

    The UK is an international outlier when it comes to economic inactivity, a new government-commissioned report has found. 

    • Corporate governance
    • USA
    • Ethics

    Ben & Jerry’s accuses Unilever for sacking boss over activism

    by Adam McCulloch 20 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 20 Mar 2025

    Ice-cream firm Ben & Jerry’s has said its chief executive, David Stever, was being removed by its parent company, Unilever, over the company’s political and social activism.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Inflation

    ONS data: Wage growth and job vacancies stabilise

    by Adam McCulloch 20 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 20 Mar 2025

    Ahead of an interest rate decision today by the Bank of England, the figures show wage growth including bonuses at 5.8% – broadly unchanged in the three months to January.

    • Finland
    • Latest News
    • Flexible working

    Finland’s workplaces the key to top spot in World Happiness Index

    by Adam McCulloch 20 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 20 Mar 2025

    UK and US slip down the league as Finnish workplaces make a major contribution to the country's success in the World Happiness Index.

    • Fire and rehire
    • Employee relations
    • Employment law

    P&O Ferries scandal: Employment Rights Bill must protect seafarers, urge unions

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Mar 2025

    New laws will help seafarers but further specific action needs to be taken by ministers.

    • Right to work
    • Latest News
    • Migrant workers

    You’ll never guess who’s a skilled worker – for visa purposes

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Mar 2025

    Eligible professions for Skilled Worker visas include ‘canine beautician’. If that isn't eyebrow-raising enough, it also includes ‘immigration officer’.

    • USA
    • North America
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Multinationals to play down DEI achievements in response to US policy

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Mar 2025

    Fewer UK-owned global companies will proclaim their commitment to DEI because of how that might impact their position in the US.

    • USA
    • North America
    • Employment law

    US judges block ‘sham’ firings of federal workers on probation

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Mar 2025

    US judges have ordered several federal government agencies to reinstate the jobs of probationary employees fired en masse last month.

    • Civil Service
    • NHS
    • Latest News

    NHS England: ‘world’s largest quango’ to be abolished

    by Adam McCulloch 13 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 13 Mar 2025

    Wes Streeting told MPs there were currently 15,300 staff at NHS England, and 3,300 in the Department of Health and Social Care. About half of the posts would go, he added.

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