Tech sector employers are often fiercely competitive over candidates, so what can we learn from EKM, a small web company in Lancashire that claims it's more difficult to get into than Oxford and does not publicise roles?
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.
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Firefighters in Wales have won a landmark pay and pensions case that could have implications for other employers in the...
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HMRC has launched around 12,000 investigations into employee benefit trusts (EBTs) in the past five years, according to law firm...
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A partner at a City law firm has issued a High Court action claiming that his firm consistently pushed older...
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As the national minimum wage celebrates its 20th anniversary, the TUC has claimed that young workers could be missing out...
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Supermarket workers earn the best rates in the retail sector, according to new analysis from Incomes Data Research.
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Three out of five working women between the ages of 45 and 55 believe their menopause symptoms are having a...
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The High Court has dismissed a case brought by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which claimed that...
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An engineer in Australia is demanding almost £1m in compensation ($AUS 1.8m) because his manager constantly farted in their small,...
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The ONS has created a chatbot where users can search for the risk of automation of different roles
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School loses appeal in gay headteacher constructive dismissal decision
by Jo Faragherby Jo FaragherA school in Wales has had its appeal dismissed in a case where a gay headteacher claimed for constructive dismissal....
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HR professionals who work as contractors could boost their average pay by 21%, according to salary data analysis from CV-Library....
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An engineer who won a Supreme Court case against Pimlico Plumbers – establishing that he was a worker and not...
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Business leaders’ top concern is moving to a hybrid AI-human workforce
by Jo Faragherby Jo FaragherTwo-thirds of business leaders fear that their organisation could become irrelevant if they fail to move to a “hybrid” workforce....
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The television presenter Lorraine Kelly has defeated HMRC at an IR35 tax tribunal after successfully appealing a tax bill of...