Alphabet, the tech giant owner of Google, has said it intends to invest £5bn ($6.8bn) over the next two years...
Nic Paton

Nic Paton
Nic Paton is consultant editor at Personnel Today. One of the country's foremost workplace health journalists, Nic has written for Personnel Today and Occupational Health & Wellbeing since 2001, and edited the magazine from 2018.
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The jobs market continued to stagnate over the summer, with pay growth and vacancies both falling and redundancies rising, latest...
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The UK needs to establish a national occupational health service alongside the NHS to help tackle, and support, the rising...
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The ‘right to request’ that employees now have to ask for flexible working has only had limited impact on how...
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MPs have urged the government ‘urgently’ to bring forward more details on its plans to create a new merged jobs...
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A bar manager who was told by her boss that she looked “very Aryan with your blue eyes and blonde...
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In a sluggish and competitive jobs market, employees are prioritising holding on to their roles and ‘job hugging’ is on...
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Only two-fifths of women (41%) globally expect that the gender pay gap will be closed for their generation, with confidence...
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HR teams in the UK and Europe can look forward to having bigger budgets to play with next year –...
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Rather than places where people are helped to find work, Jobcentres have “become centres for monitoring compliance with benefit conditions”,...
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Pay awards felt the squeeze in the three months to July, coming in at a median of 3%, down from...
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A finance and IT director who was diagnosed with cancer experienced harassment when he was denied a pay increase and...
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People working with pesticides can be at higher risk of respiratory illnesses, and this may often go undiagnosed, research has...
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A third of employees (34%) feel anxious about having a lack of trained first aiders in their workplace, according to...
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Swiss food and drink giant Nestlé has sacked its chief executive officer Laurent Freixe “with immediate effect” because he failed...