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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
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    Are we happy now? New research Sugar-coats working from home

    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022

    If Alan Sugar is enjoying raging about hybrid working, he'll really love reading the latest happiness at work findings… 

    • Financial services
    • Latest News
    • Professional services

    KPMG offers pay rises of £2k or £4k to 15,800 UK staff

    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022

    KPMG's partners will not be eligible for the increase as the company moves to gain competitive edge in the ‘battle for talent’.

    • Learning management systems
    • HR software
    • Latest News

    Productivity blighted by users’ tech problems, research reveals

    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022

    Businesses are losing millions of working hours each week because of employees’ difficulties adopting software, it has been claimed.

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • Professional services

    Alan Sugar calls PwC Friday afternoons off a ‘joke‘

    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022

    Entrepreneur and celebrity Alan Sugar has dismissed PriceWaterhouseCoopers' decision to give workers Friday afternoons off throughout summer as a ‘bloody joke’.

    • Hybrid working
    • Financial services
    • Employment law

    PwC staff to benefit from extended summer hours policy

    by Adam McCulloch 5 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 5 May 2022

    Between 1 June and 31 August, the PwC's 22,000 staff will be able to stop working at lunchtime.

    • Latest News
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    • Inflation

    Latest job advert figures point to growing economic uncertainty

    by Adam McCulloch 5 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 5 May 2022

    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.

    • Benefits
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    Twice as many men as women hold company share options

    by Adam McCulloch 3 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 3 May 2022

    Share option gulf underlines failure of gender pay gap to close in UK.

    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News
    • Discrimination

    Steep rise in employment tribunal claims over neurodiversity discrimination

    by Adam McCulloch 2 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 2 May 2022

    Employment tribunals in which employees alleged they were discriminated against for being ‘neurodiverse’ rose by a third last year.

    • Employee communications
    • Latest News
    • Discipline and grievances

    Who doesn’t use emojis now?

    by Adam McCulloch 29 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 29 Apr 2022

    Emoticons have crept into standard use thanks to Twitter, WhatsApp and the global pandemic. What does this tell us about business communications?

    • Disability discrimination
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    • Gender pay gap

    Disability pay gap wider than in 2014

    by Adam McCulloch 29 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 29 Apr 2022

    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.

    • Coronavirus
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    • Sickness absence

    Union accuses easyJet of corporate bullying over staff sickness

    by Adam McCulloch 29 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 29 Apr 2022

    High sickness absence rates has led to cancelled flights and a row with the pilots' union at budget airline easyJet.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Job creation and losses

    Passport Office: private firm told to hire more staff

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Apr 2022

    The Home Office tells French multinational Teleperformance to hire more staff in a bid to tackle Passport Office backlog.

    • Employee communications
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Network Rail: unions angered by ‘work harder at school’ comment

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Apr 2022

    A Network Rail regional director of communications has told rail workers about to take part in a national strike ballot...

    • Collective redundancy
    • Employment law
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    P&O Ferries told to return £11m furlough money as sailings resume

    by Adam McCulloch 28 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 28 Apr 2022

    Transport secretary Grant Shapps calls on P&O Ferries chief executive to resign but first to return furlough cash.

    • Civil Service
    • Employee relations
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    Home Office civil servants angry at Rwanda asylum seekers plan

    by Adam McCulloch 22 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 22 Apr 2022

    Home Office employees speak out over Priti Patel's plan for asylum seekers.

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