LACE was recently asked to give our view on the digitalisation of HR and what HR teams need to successfully deliver a digital HR transformation in The HR Director magazine. The latest edition can be downloaded here. In today’s blog we’ve summarised some of the key...
Our latest blog looks at how organisations can design their flexible working policies to create positive experiences for employees. If you’d like to talk to us about how you differentiate your people experiences, we can help, so get in touch using the contact form...
Hybrid and remote working more prevalent, more and more businesses are re-evaluating how much focus cyber security should have. In today’s blog we explore just how much focus HR should have. Is it HR’s top priority and should it be? Evan from our team explores this....
How can you build an in-house people consulting team to help you better deliver change projects? What can you do to identify the skills and capabilities needed for this? In this week’s blog we hear from James McLintic, one of our directors, for some actionable advice...
In today’s blog Evan from our team took a look at the impact of the proposed pilot of a four-day work week will have in the UK. Can it be more productive than the traditional five-day work week? What are the implications? How will businesses need to adapt their people...
On Friday we released a blog which was part one of a two-part series that looked at the future of the Payroll function from a ‘internal factors’ lens. In today’s blog Chris Kirby looks at the external factors that are leading to the conversations around the future of...
Today’s blog comes from our Payroll expert Chris Kirby, who heads up our payroll consultancy services at LACE. As a business we speak to a variety of organisations about how they can improve their payroll function or solve payroll challenges. This includes managing...
How can organisations use the performance management process to drive business outcomes, rather than use them merely as a ‘tick box’ exercise? In a recent HR on the Offensive podcast we discussed this with Roly Walter, founder of Appraisd and below is an overview of...
In this week's blog we look at why employees may quit a job but also what makes other employees want to stay. Stay interviews are a great way to get that type of information. Should your business implement stay interviews, or does it depend on your pre-existing level...
Late in 2021 we spoke to HR industry influencer Merv Dinnen about a whitepaper he wrote in conjunction with SHL. In today’s blog we have summarised some of his thoughts and picked out some of the key talking points, which looked at the six shifts that are commonplace...
In 2021 we hosted a forum to discuss employee experience with a group of EX practitioners. Chris and Aaron from LACE Partners recently sat down with Katie Wilde from Applaud to discuss the key points and discussions which were raised as part of this community session....
Chris Howard and Emma Leonis were recently joined by Simon Cunniffe from easyJet to discuss how they engage workers who are unconnected, remote or – by their very nature of the job they do – often difficult to reach. This was a follow-on podcast from the webinar held...
In 2021 Applearn produced a report looking at the Hidden Costs of the Digital Employee Experience. Chris and Emma from LACE Partners recently sat down on a podcast with Andrew Avanessian from Applearn to discuss the key findings and ways companies can actually go...
In this week’s blog our in-house payroll ‘doctor’ Chris Kirby tells us how a holistic approach to payroll diagnosis can boost efficiency, experience and return on investment. Read on to learn about common misconceptions on the causes of payroll problems – and how you...
We are often asked by clients or HR teams in our community about benchmarking and specifically about providing data on how HR teams are performing in their ‘space’. Today’s blog is an overview of some of the key considerations that teams should be thinking of when...
