There are a ton of challenges that come hand-in-hand with employing a team of staff… Ensuring that productivity is high and that you’re getting a good return on your staffing investment. Keeping up to date with performance reviews. Staying on the right side of employment legislation. And the tricky question of whether to accept that friend request you just received …
Pokémon Go – Should employers be worried?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of months, you’ll be familiar with the latest digital trend sweeping the world. Pokémon Go involves using your mobile to find and capture virtual creatures, and is currently being used by more than 100 million users worldwide. Now I’m not one of them to be honest, but there have …
Should you snoop on your employees?
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that employers can justify reading their workers’ online 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, …