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Jo Faragher

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Jo Faragher has been an employment and business journalist for 20 years. She regularly contributes to Personnel Today and writes features for a number of national business and membership magazines. Jo is also the author of 'Good Work, Great Technology', published in 2022 by Clink Street Publishing, charting the relationship between effective workplace technology and productive and happy employees. She won the Willis Towers Watson HR journalist of the year award in 2015 and has been highly commended twice.

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    • Economics, government & business
    • Movers and shakers

    HR and employment leaders feature in King’s birthday honours list

    by Jo Faragher 16 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 16 Jun 2025

    A number of figures in the HR and employment space have been awarded in the King’s birthday honours list.
    Neil...

    • Latest News
    • Employment tribunals
    • Reproductive health

    Menopause claims triple in two years, tribunal figures show

    by Jo Faragher 16 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 16 Jun 2025

    Tribunal claims relating to menopause have tripled in the last two years, according to analysis of the latest case statistics.

    • Employee relations
    • Dispute resolution
    • Employee communications

    Data ‘blind spots’ blighting employee relations

    by Jo Faragher 13 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 13 Jun 2025

    Discrimination and harassment cases hit their highest levels in companies in 2024, and data blind spots are affecting how companies respond.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention

    Capita rolls out ‘agentic AI’ to speed up recruitment

    by Jo Faragher 13 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 13 Jun 2025

    Outsourcing company Capita will use agentic AI to automate more than 200 recruitment tasks and speed up hiring.

    • CIPD
    • Employee engagement
    • Data protection

    CIPD Festival of Work: ‘Wellbeing is not an ideology’

    by Jo Faragher 11 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 11 Jun 2025

    ‘Good work’ and focusing on wellbeing are the levers needed to get people back into work, according to CIPD chief...

    • Agency workers
    • NHS
    • Local authorities

    Healthdaq: Shaking up health and social care recruitment

    by Jo Faragher 11 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 11 Jun 2025

    Healthdaq CEO Stephen McLarnon talks about winning Excellence in Public Service Award in 2024 and his company's work reducing agency worker spend.

    • Shared parental leave
    • Gender
    • Latest News

    Parental leave system is ‘broken’, say MPs

    by Jo Faragher 10 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 10 Jun 2025

    The current system of parental leave in the UK has “fundamental failings”, according to a new report from the Women and Equalities Commission.

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    Hiring confidence drops due to ‘reset’ in market

    by Jo Faragher 10 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 10 Jun 2025

    UK employers’ hiring confidence for the third quarter of this year has dropped 12%, the steepest quarterly fall in recent...

    • Stress
    • Careers in HR
    • Latest News

    HR professionals lack mental health support, risking burnout

    by Jo Faragher 9 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 9 Jun 2025

    Almost nine in 10 HR professionals do not feel supported with their mental health at work, according to a survey.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Apprenticeships
    • Latest News

    Multiverse to open up 15,000 apprenticeships

    by Jo Faragher 9 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 9 Jun 2025

    AI and tech skills provider Multiverse has announced the creation of 15,000 new AI apprenticeships over the next two years....

    • Stress
    • Carers
    • Latest News

    Employers must offer more flexibility to working carers, research shows

    by Jo Faragher 9 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 9 Jun 2025

    Almost half (44%) of unpaid carers who work have found their mental and physical health has got worse since taking on caring responsibilities.

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    CIPD: A quarter feel work has negative impact on health

    by Jo Faragher 9 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 9 Jun 2025

    A quarter of workers believe their job has a negative impact on their health, according to research from the CIPD....

    • Latest News
    • Manufacturing
    • Job creation and losses

    Procter & Gamble to cut 7,000 jobs as tariffs bite

    by Jo Faragher 6 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 6 Jun 2025

    Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble will cut 7,000 jobs over the next two years as it deals with increased economic pressures.

    • Bonuses
    • Environment
    • Latest News

    Water companies banned from exec bonuses

    by Jo Faragher 6 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 6 Jun 2025

    Six water companies have been banned from paying bosses bonuses under new legislation.

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Minimum wage

    Employment Rights Bill: peers propose change to work experience rules

    by Jo Faragher 4 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 4 Jun 2025

    An amendment to the Employment Rights Bill to ensure that work experience placements are not exploitative or flout minimum wage laws has been put forward.

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