Remote working offers many benefits to businesses and employees alike, but it also introduces several new workforce challenges, one of those being proximity bias. Proximity bias refers to those not…
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Remote Working: I Don’t Feel I can Speak Up in Video Calls
Remote working during the Coronavirus pandemic has delivered fresh challenges for management and for employees. In this series of blogs, (more here), we look at some of the key concerns…
Remote Working: Arranging a Meeting Feels too Formal Sometimes
Remote working during the Coronavirus pandemic has delivered fresh challenges for management and for employees. In this series of blogs, (more here), we look at some of the key concerns…
Accelerated Learning: How to apply the principles in a virtual classroom
How can we apply accelerated learning in the digital classroom? Here’s our experience. Place your pen on a piece of paper and draw a line about 3 centimetres long diagonally…
Employment Law Update – November 2021
Welcome to this month’s employment law update. In November we’re covering: The controversial Kostal UK v Dunkley case – the Supreme Court has had the final say. We look at what…
Podcast: How to Run an Investigation
Vista’s Head of Learning, Vicky Roberts joined the HR Uprising team to discuss how to run an investigation. Before diving straight into talking to people (tempting, we know!), we always…
Hybrid, Remote and Flexible Working: What’s the Difference?
Our new world of work includes hybrid working, remote working, and flexible working. Each term can be easily confused but each have some clear differences from an employment perspective. Here’s…
Diversity Training: Responding to the Voices that say it Doesn’t Work
There has been plenty of articles of over the years pointing out why diversity training does not work. Whilst it’s not inevitable that it works, in our view, it’s equally…
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Employment Law Update – September 2021
Welcome to this month’s employment law update. In September we’re covering: A direct discrimination case where Muslim employees were banned from wearing headscarves in the workplace Secretary of State for…
Discrimination and the Shifting Burden of Proof: Why Employers Need to ‘Show Their Workings’
Section 13(1) of the Equality Act 2010 defines discrimination as occurring where “because of a protected characteristic, A treats B less favourably than A treats or would treat others”. In…