by Rachel Goodman | Feb 27, 2025 | Culture & Values, Employee Experience, Leave & Absences
As you know if you follow our social media, here at vivoHR we’re all for celebrating ‘fun holidays’ (May the 4th be with you … and the like) and they can be a fantastic way to bring a team together and add some joy to the workplace. However, beyond the light-hearted...
by Rachel Goodman | Jan 9, 2025 | Leave & Absences
It’s cold and dark, you wake up in the morning, look at the clock, and realize it’s one of those days when you just can’t make it to work. We’re not talking about the genuine reasons here, we’re sharing some of the more inventive reasons for work absences and how to...
by Rachel Goodman | Jan 10, 2024 | Leave & Absences
Are you working out your part time holiday allowances correctly? One of the most precious things to an employee (after job security and satisfaction of course) is holiday, it can also be one of the most headache inducing elements of employing people especially...
by Rachel Goodman | Nov 13, 2023 | General, Leave & Absences, Seasonal & Celebrations
Have you noticed that a lot more of your staff seem to be off sick recently? It might be the odd day here and there for coughs and colds, or maybe you’re seeing more people off for longer chunks of time than you usually do. If so, you’re not the only one. Yes,...
by Kate Sholto-Douglas | May 17, 2022 | Health & Wellbeing, Leave & Absences
Staff sickness absences were at an all-time low during the pandemic and the ‘work from home if you can’ rules meant that we weren’t going anywhere or seeing anyone to share germs. It’s come as no surprise that now we are all learning to live with...
by Rachel Goodman | Jan 14, 2022 | Leave & Absences
Blue Monday falls in the third Monday in January – next week! Our banks accounts are empty, we’ve already broken our new year resolutions, if we even started them and it’s dark. No wonder it’s the classed as the most gloomy day of the year and has been given the name...