vivoHR & Training Blog

The National Insurance contributions (NICs) Employment Allowance was introduced in April 2014. It was aimed at reducing the cost of employing people for small businesses. Eligible employers could claim the allowance from April 2014, which reduced their Employer NICs...

Football crazy? Football drives you crazy?! Yes Euro 2016 is almost upon us and as is the way whenever there are major supporting events, employers may be considering what the impact to their business might be in terms of requests for time off, potential for people...

Brexit – what’s the impact on those of you who are employing people to work in your businesses? We’ve been keeping a close eye on what’s being reported about the potential impact to employers if we were to vote Brexit on 23 June. Firstly, it seems fair to say that no...

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...

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 see...

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 has a temporary...

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!  

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 reported...

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...