Has the global pandemic really brought work/life balance? In 2020 the team at Culture Amp produced Hindsight is 2020, a report analysing the emergency response feedback surveys produced for customers during the pandemic. Chris and Emma from LACE Partners recently sat...
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Uniting at LACE for National Inclusion Week
This week is National Inclusion Week and at LACE Partners we’ve been embracing the importance of diversity and inclusion through a variety of different initiatives. For this week’s blog we will focus on some of the activities, and also let you hear from one of our...
Unlocking the power of digital adoption analytics
In this week’s blog we speak to Matt Sturman, Senior Technical Consultant at AppLearn about the findings of their latest whitepaper; ‘Understanding Digital Adoption Analytics’. In our recent HR on the Offensive podcast we spoke to Matt (which you can listen to here)....
Consumer Vs Colleague Experience – are they really that different?
Our partners Applaud recently launched a whitepaper entitled ‘The Future of HR: Employee experience fuelled by consumer-grade technology’ and in the latest HR on the Offensive Podcast Chris and Luka spoke to Jordan Robinson about some of the key themes. What did the...
HR strategy Vs People strategy – What is the difference?
This week’s blog sees our co-founder and MD Cathy Acratopulo and Director Chris Horton de-mystify the difference between a People Strategy and an HR Strategy, as well as discussing how HR Directors can articulate and operationalise their strategies over time. HR...
Understanding the change impacts of an HR transformation
In our latest blog we talk to Cathy and Rachel from LACE Partners about the complexities of change management during HR transformation. This is a summary of the discussion from the recent HR on the Offensive podcast. What do we mean when we talk about change in a HR...
Should more businesses be embracing digital employee experience?
This week we spoke to Duncan Casemore, one of the co-founders at Applaud, a digital experience layer that is designed to simplify digital HR. Applaud have recently released a digital EX trends report so we wanted to find out what they learnt and discuss how and why...
Tackling the issues of workplace bullying
In one of our recent podcasts we spoke to Nicki Eyre, who runs Conduct Change and is passionate about eradicating the issue of workplace bullying. In the below summary we look at some of the key considerations businesses should be looking at when trying to understand...
Do you really need an app for that?
Today’s blog is a summary from our podcast released last week featuring a conversation with Future Workshops’ CEO Matt Brooke-Smith, who spoke to our team about the shifting landscape of mobile app development, how it is no longer the preserve of the IT department and...
Is ‘upskilling’ the new ‘hiring’?
In a recent HR on the Offensive Podcast Chris and Max from spoke to Andrew Holmes from Skillsoft about the changes that the online learning platform had seen in 2020 moving in to 2021. Earlier this year they produced a report which focused on 2021 predictions for...
Reinventing HR: The shifting relationship between employees and employers
This week’s blog is a summary of the some of the discussion topics in the recent HR on the Offensive podcast featuring Charlie Knox, Director of Product & Solutions at SD Worx, who spoke to us about the recent ‘Reinventing HR’ white paper which interviews 3000+...
Navigating a tough year for managing people change
Joined by Penny Lang (previously from Cornwall Care), this week’s blog summarises a discussion on one of a recent HR on the Offensive Podcast. Penny ran a change programme implementing Ceridian’s HCM technology Dayforce in 2020 so we spoke to her to understand how you...
Running before you can walk? The importance of Cloud readiness
In this week’s blog we ask our HR Technology experts about the importance of being Cloud ready. Is moving to the Cloud as easy as promised and how should you mobilise your Cloud transformation? This blog examines how to reduce risk when preparing...
Why it’s time to accelerate the digital agenda – embracing the buyers’ market for HR technology
At LACE we pride ourselves on our knowledge and understanding of the HR tech landscape. Today’s blog is an overview of a round table discussion we ran in March 2021, discussing with some of our HR Tech Advisory Team why it is a buyers' market for HR tech products...
Does retraining and reskilling your employees represent the new currency of the workplace?
Joined by Nelson Sivalingam, CEO of How Now, this week’s blog summarises themes discussed on one of our latest HR on the Offensive podcast. As many organisations have adapted to working through the pandemic the requirements from employees have changed. We...















