February 2016 - Meraki HR

Transparency is an over used word……………..

In the last year, I have been getting to know my clients and they have been getting to know me. Those that I have been working with for a while, know they can be totally honest with me about their worries, fears and concerns or about what really happened, and they wont be judged! Rather than the version of events that I am sometimes given which I know is possibly not quite what really happened! With my clients who are really honest with me, I feel that I owe them…

5th February 2016

Make sure you are ready for the living wage

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past six months, you’ll no doubt be more than aware that the new regulations regarding National Living Wage will soon be rolled out. From 1st April 2016, workers in the UK aged over 25 earning the current minimum wage of £6.70 per hour will be entitled to a 50p increase, meaning they will be earning £7.20 per hour. It’s great news for many employees, with many individuals expected to take home an extra £900 a year. As an employer though, you…

4th February 2016

Should you snoop on your employees?

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that employers can justify reading their workers’ on-line private messages. An engineer in Romania asked the judges to rule that his employer had breached his right to confidential correspondence, but it was ultimately decided that the individual had broken the terms of his employment by sending messages on company time. Interesting, the ECHR commented that it wasn’t “unreasonable that an employer would want to verify that employees were completing their professional tasks during working hours”. Now of course, this raises some…

3rd February 2016

How to Handle Office Romances

With many of us spending more and more time at the office, it’s no surprise that many working relationships blossom into something a little more intimate. In fact, research carried out by CareerBuilder.com found that 38% of workers have dated a colleague at some point in their working lives. Those individuals are in pretty good company as well, as just one power couple that met in the workplace is none other than Barack and Michelle Obama. Back in 1989, the pair met whilst they were spending time working at the…

2nd February 2016

Want to know what Google think about HR?

Many of the SME businesses that I work with want to emulate other businesses that are already successful, such as Google or Facebook, as they feel that if they copy their business principles, they are bound to be successful too, right? Well to some degree, I agree with them! I also believe that every company is different and therefore needs to do things that work for them and their business. However, it’s always good to hear about great ideas and learn from them. I have wanted to get my hands…

1st February 2016

Month: February 2016

Transparency is an over used word……………..

Make sure you are ready for the living wage

Should you snoop on your employees?

How to Handle Office Romances

Want to know what Google think about HR?

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South Lakeland House,
Angel Yard, 21-23 Highgate,
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