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Jo Faragher

Jo Faragher

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.

    • NHS
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    • Learning & development

    Doctors call for training reform to beat burnout

    by Jo Faragher 8 Aug 2025
    by Jo Faragher 8 Aug 2025

    Frustration with training and lack of progress is leading to burnout among many UK doctors, according to the General Medical...

    • NHS
    • Dispute resolution
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Resident doctors reach ‘greater mutual understanding’ with government

    by Jo Faragher 6 Aug 2025
    by Jo Faragher 6 Aug 2025

    The British Medical Association and the government have reached a ‘greater mutual understanding’ after constructive talks yesterday (5 August).
    The...

    • Absence
    • Civil Service
    • Latest News

    Civil service absence on track to report record high

    by Jo Faragher 6 Aug 2025
    by Jo Faragher 6 Aug 2025

    Absences in the civil service could be up to more than eight days per worker per year, according to sickness data published by departments.

    • NHS
    • Latest News
    • Ethnicity pay gap

    Review launched into NHS ethnicity pay gap

    by Jo Faragher 6 Aug 2025
    by Jo Faragher 6 Aug 2025

    An independent review into the ethnicity pay gap in the NHS has been launched by the NHS Race and Health Observatory.

    • Stress
    • Financial wellbeing
    • Mental health

    ‘Knowledge gap’ fuelling stress about workers’ finances

    by Jo Faragher 6 Aug 2025
    by Jo Faragher 6 Aug 2025

    Almost three-quarters of employees are stressed about their finances, with two-fifths unprepared for financial emergencies.

    • NHS
    • Industrial action / strikes
    • Latest News

    Doctors’ strike impact on patients limited, figures show

    by Jo Faragher 4 Aug 2025
    by Jo Faragher 4 Aug 2025

    The number of resident doctors who chose to strike last week fell by 7.5% compared to the last round of industrial action.

    • USA
    • North America
    • Manufacturing

    Boeing defence workers walk out after latest pay offer

    by Jo Faragher 4 Aug 2025
    by Jo Faragher 4 Aug 2025

    More than 3,000 workers at the defence arm of aviation giant Boeing are on strike over pay, work schedules and...

    • Latest News
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    Personnel Today Awards 2025: Shortlist revealed

    by Jo Faragher 28 Jul 2025
    by Jo Faragher 28 Jul 2025

    The expert judging panel has finished its deliberations and we can now reveal the shortlist for the Personnel Today Awards...

    • Latest News
    • Labour market
    • Recruitment & retention

    ‘Anaemic’ rise in job postings in June

    by Jo Faragher 24 Jul 2025
    by Jo Faragher 24 Jul 2025

    A ‘small burst of hiring’ meant that new UK job postings went up by just over 6% in June, according to the REC.

    • Latest News
    • Four-day week
    • Wellbeing

    Four-day week study shows benefits to health

    by Jo Faragher 23 Jul 2025
    by Jo Faragher 23 Jul 2025

    A four-day working week - with no reduction in pay - can have a positive impact on workers’ mental and physical health.

    • NHS
    • Dispute resolution
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Resident doctors strikes to go ahead

    by Jo Faragher 23 Jul 2025
    by Jo Faragher 23 Jul 2025

    Doctors union the BMA has warned that changes to strike planning could risk patient safety.

    • Latest News
    • Inflation
    • Pay settlements

    Pay awards show return of employer restraint

    by Jo Faragher 23 Jul 2025
    by Jo Faragher 23 Jul 2025

    Four in five employees received a smaller pay award in 2025 than in the previous year, as employers increasingly show restraint.

    • Constructive dismissal
    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News

    Exec ‘replaced’ during cancer treatment awarded £1.2m

    by Jo Faragher 23 Jul 2025
    by Jo Faragher 23 Jul 2025

    An executive whose job was given to someone else while she was off sick with cancer has won £1.2 million in compensation at tribunal.

    • Hospitality
    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses

    BrewDog bar closures put jobs at risk

    by Jo Faragher 23 Jul 2025
    by Jo Faragher 23 Jul 2025

    Pub chain BrewDog will close 10 bars, blaming ‘extremely difficult’ economic conditions for hospitality.

    • Ethics
    • Latest News
    • Trade unions

    Former Unite leader accepted flights and hospitality from building firm

    by Jo Faragher 23 Jul 2025
    by Jo Faragher 23 Jul 2025

    Len McCluskey, former head of the Unite union, accepted flights on a private jet arranged by a building company.

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