by Rachel Goodman | May 11, 2016 | General News
Receptionist sent home from work for not wearing high heels! Really?! What decade are we living in?! It is perfectly reasonable and lawful to set a dress code on your place of work, and in fact it is reasonable (and not discriminatory) to have different requirements...
by Rachel Goodman | May 11, 2016 | General News
Giving your employer access to your facebook page? The future of recruitment? We’re not sure if this sounds like a great idea or truly scary! We all know recruiters (we have used this technique ourselves in vivoHR a few times!) will look candidates up online and...
by Rachel Goodman | Apr 22, 2016 | General News
The term “Probationary Period” has no legal meaning or status whatsoever! At vivoHR we bang on about probation a lot but we are reminded to remind you following a useful article in Personnel Today this month… Being on probation does not mean someone...
by Rachel Goodman | Apr 21, 2016 | General News
Woohoo vivoHR – Prize Winners – Best Dressed Stand at Basingstoke Business Expo! We met lots of great new people, had some interesting business conversations, a few less business like chats, caught up with some old friends and generally had a great day!...
by Rachel Goodman | Apr 19, 2016 | General News
Apparently the top 3 causes of stress are money worries, the nature of our job (pressure / working hours etc), then family and relationship issues – this according to a CIPD survey looking at flexible working and commuting. Unsurprisingly flexible working is...
by Rachel Goodman | Apr 14, 2016 | General News
As Spring feels like it might be approaching & thoughts maybe turn to summer holidays, it’s a time of year for many businesses to consider planning for additional staffing requirements. If you rely on seasonal staff, does it sometimes feel like you’ve only just...
