HR systems have been shown to be critical to organisational success. Will HR tech move from being a back office to a major enabling tool to help business make enough of their human potential? Max from the HR Tech team shares his thoughts... Why HR should make data a...
In the second of a two-part HR on the Offensive podcast with our partners Norton Rose Fulbright (you can read part one here), we discussed the issues of furlough and redundancy for HR teams and the businesses they operate within. Once again Cathy and Chris from LACE...
In a recent HR on the Offensive podcast Cathy and Chris from LACE Partners sat down (virtually) with Paul Griffin, Head of Employment at Norton Rose Fulbright, to talk about some of the challenges HR teams are facing from a legal perspective as organisations return...
A recent McKinsey article reported that ‘we have vaulted five years forward in consumer and business digital adoption in a matter of around eight weeks’. With the event of Covid-19, workforces have suddenly been required to adapt to remote ways of working. Many need...
Change is afoot! Business, and society at large, is on the cusp of a new and never seen before challenge; a challenge that will create unprecedented levels of uncertainty and will alter organisations as we know them. To navigate these stormy seas, businesses will need...
Much has evolved since the Covid-19 global pandemic entered our lives. It feels like a lifetime ago but has only been a few short months. We have seen significant retrenchment and re-organisation at scale and pace, in businesses large and small, with many...
On 21st April we ran a webinar called Creating the ‘new normal’. During the webinar we asked the senior HR professionals who attended – over 80 that took part – whether they had a transition plan in place to rebuild their workforce as the recovery gets underway. 89%...
As we enter over a month of ‘lockdown’ in which confinement to homes is now the norm, many of us have found that what has transpired over the last month has involved people working harder, longer hours, trying desperately to ensure that we can maintain as much of our...
For many of us, it may feel as though the current lockdown and subsequent weeks of remote working have lasted a lifetime. The rapid pace of change that we have seen in a few short weeks has resulted in HR teams having to crisis manage in an environment that nobody saw...
Yesterday (Thursday 2nd April) we launched our first in a series of webinars which aim to provide support and guidance to HR teams across some very distinct areas. The main focus of our webinar yesterday – which you can watch an ‘on demand’ version of here – was on...
With Europe at the epicentre of the current global pandemic and with every human being on the planet affected in some way or another by what is happening, the team at LACE Partners wanted to reflect with you on what we see as the impact on HR teams not only in the UK,...
With artificial intelligence becoming an ever-more intensive debate amongst the HR community with each passing month, we decided to reach out to one of our partners – global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright – to get some more information about the impact it is having in...
I was in the pub the other day with a friend of mine. He works in the charity sector and was recounting his challenges with his current line manager. She’d been somebody who had been in the organisation for between six to eight years and it was the first company she’d...
Last week Oracle hosted its annual OpenWorld conference in London and as a tech agnostic HR consultancy, LACE Partners met with key leaders in Oracle’s HCM team to understand the latest developments and updates that Oracle have in store from its customers. As an HR...
Rachel Mawson, Practice Lead from LACE Partners gives us an overview of Digital Adoption Solutions (DAS) and why you should be clueing yourself up on them now. What is adoption? At LACE, when we talk about ‘adoption’, we mean a measurable state of behaviour that is...
