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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
    • Automation
    • Latest News

    Davos 2022: Upskilling workers necessary to overcome business challenges

    by Adam McCulloch 26 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 26 May 2022

    Job experts from Capgemini, the EU and global recruitment tell delegates in Davos that employers need to confront demographic challenges if they are to tackle a lack of skills.

    • China
    • Financial services
    • Asia

    Davos hears that ‘wages can rise’ without creating price spiral

    by Adam McCulloch 26 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 26 May 2022

    Wages do not have to be held back to help avoid an inflationary wage-price spiral, a leading IMF economist has said.

    • Hybrid working
    • Stress
    • Financial services

    Burnout afflicts finance sector despite hybrid working

    by Adam McCulloch 26 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 26 May 2022

    According to research there is a risk of an upcoming exodus from the financial sector amid increasing rates of burnout.

    • Europe
    • Latest News
    • Expenses

    ‘It’s International HR Day – wait, you didn’t know?’

    by Adam McCulloch 20 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 20 May 2022

    International HR Day is here. But so is World Bee Day …

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • HR strategy

    Adapt culture to hybrid work: do not force a return to offices, says Gartner

    by Adam McCulloch 20 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 20 May 2022

    Hybrid working challenges culture but failure to adapt will cost firms talented staff and lost productivity.

    • Social mobility
    • Financial services
    • Legal sector

    City firms pledge to improve social mobility in leading roles

    by Adam McCulloch 20 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 20 May 2022

    A major new initiative has been launched to improve social mobility when it comes to recruitment into senior jobs in the City.

    • Careers in HR
    • Latest News
    • Movers and shakers

    Movers and shakers May 2022: John Lewis and Virgin Group appoint new HR leaders

    by Adam McCulloch 20 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 20 May 2022

    Recent job announcements see Virgin Group appoint Nikki Humphrey from a leading role at John Lewis.

    • Latest News
    • Sickness absence
    • UK

    Statutory sick pay reforms would save £4bn

    by Adam McCulloch 19 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 19 May 2022

    Overhauling the UK's 40-year-old statutory sick pay system could benefit the UK to the tune of £3.9bn and better support hundreds of thousands of workers, according to new proposals.

    • Brexit
    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses

    Steep rise in visas for non-EU migrant workers

    by Adam McCulloch 19 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 19 May 2022

    The first year of the UK's new post-Brexit immigration system has seen a large increase in the number of visas issued to non-EU migrants.

    • Sexual harassment
    • Bullying and harassment
    • Latest News

    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.

    • Hybrid working
    • Civil Service
    • Latest News

    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...

    • Hybrid working
    • Offices
    • Latest News

    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.

    • STEM
    • Right to work
    • Financial services

    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.

    • Collective bargaining
    • Latest News
    • Gig economy

    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
    • Department for Business and Trade (DBT)

    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.

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