To round off the year, we’ve been focusing on the trends, topics and discussion points that have crystallised around our One Big Thing White Paper. The paper covers the myriad topics swirling around for Chief People Officers (CPOs) as key focus areas for 2023 and into...
In this week's blog LACE Partners consultant Alex Oliver summarises what innovations in payroll 2022 has seen for key industry players. As a technology-agnostic business we make it our business to keep our finger to the pulse of all shifts so we can best advise our...
In this week’s blog we hear from senior consultant Neil Ilott about how to get the foundations right with your data quality. In any project making sure the data is ready is a crucial – and often overlooked – stage. Read on to learn the core considerations to bear in...
Back in July, we published our HR Shared Services Trends 2022 report. Since then, senior HR Shared Services professionals have noted several consistent themes emerging within their businesses. Recently we gathered senior HRSS people and homed in on a specific part of...
A recent article in CIO magazine suggested at a Gartner IT Symposium in Barcelona, that CIOs should be using the current recessionary period as an opportunity to use digital investment to deliver growth, focusing on ‘revolutionary work’ to empower the workforce,...
In this week’s blog we hear from Emily Fryer, one of our amazing consultants at LACE. Prior to joining the team in September 2021 Emily worked ‘in-house’ at both UCL and Cath Kidson. In this blog Emily explains what motivated her move into consulting, the...
As the calendar years begins to draw to a close, attention turns to budgets – both setting and spending. In today’s blog Chris Kirby argues the case for investing in the payroll function to deliver real-time value to a business. The current financial climate has...
In this week’s blog we hear from our CEO and Co-founder Aaron Alburey on the industry’s favourite non-buzzword. All signs point to many more years of HR and business transformation, but what does that really mean? Hear what Aaron has to say below. At LACE we are of...
We bring payroll professionals together on a regular basis to share ideas, best practice and insights at our discussion forums. If you’d like to join our growing community and take part in our next forum, drop Adam Morris or Chris Kirby a line. In the meantime, here...
Earlier in October we ran our first Transformation Directors forum, which brought together a collective of HR professionals from a variety of industries to discuss some of the most pressing questions they have across the different businesses they work in. Sian...
In this week’s blog we reflect on the takeaways from our recent PX Forum meet up. As many of you know, we are building our community of employee experience enthusiasts who meet regularly to network, share ideas and discuss hot topics in the industry. If you would like...
This blog follows our One Big Thing research where we conducted interview with over 30 CPOs from different sectors and company sizes, to find out what the ‘one big thing’ was that was their big pressing concerns in the coming 12 – 18 months. One of the main challenges...
This blog includes one of the the topics discussed in our recent One Big Thing research. Click here to learn more. Why are some employers finding it challenging to recruit Gen Z workers? How have attitudes and needs around the workplace developed over the last few...
As we ended 2021 the big talking point was the impact of the post pandemic ‘Great Resignation’, where the economy opened back up and employees began reconsidering their own career prospects. In 2022 the focus has been on ‘quiet quitting’, so we caught up with Cathy...
This blog includes one of the the topics discussed in our recent One Big Thing research. Click here to learn more. In this week’s blog we spoke to Mervyn Dinnen about a new book he has written with Matt Alder called ‘Digital Talent’. Read on to understand the core...
