Christmas, a time to give thanks

We’re in the festive spirit at vivoHR – we’re wishing everyone a Merry Christmas with every email we send thanks to our lovely Christmas signatures. We’ve planned our Christmas shutdown, we’ve let all our clients know, and we’ve...

A busy week for vivoHR

It’s been a busy week at vivoHR – lots of great stuff going on. No Black Friday offers from us – we didn’t want a riot outside our office door! Watch out for a link to an epic vivoHR newsletter coming up – all about Shared Parental Leave...

Pay growth has overtaken inflation

This weeks see a news report based on data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) that pay growth has overtaken inflation for the first time in five years. Wages rose by 1.3% in the year to September according to the ONS. At the same time unemployment has fallen...

Unpaid Internships

It’s perhaps hardly news to hear that unpaid internships favour the rich, whereby mum or dad can foot the bill for living costs while their offspring gain real world experience in their chosen career, but that’s the headline findings of research by an...

Zero Hours Contract

We’ve just seen this report about Sports Direct and the zero hours contract issues. The headline rather boldly states that Sports Direct have “bowed to pressure” over their use of zero hours contracts.However reading further it appears they have...