Our latest HR Shared Services (HRSS) forum sparked loads of interesting debate about the issues that are front and centre right now. From the challenges of securing the next generation of talent to finally cracking hybrid working, we gained some fantastic insight from...
In May we hosted the latest of our regular payroll community forums. Senior Payroll professionals from a wide variety of industry sectors regularly join us to discuss everything from optimisation (when, how and how much?) to ownership and reach, debating the current...
At LACE, we constantly question the status quo and seek out ways to shake it up. This led us to launch our latest campaign on redefining workplace productivity, making it fit for purpose in a post-pandemic world. As part of this campaign, we recently hosted a...
In our weekly blogs, we’ve talked a lot about the different types of approaches businesses are taking to hybrid working. Each organisation is working through what is most relevant for them, as evidenced by our ‘silver bullet’ series we produced at the beginning of...
We recently ran our latest Chief People Officer (CPO) forum, in which we discussed a manner of different topics from CPOs from a variety of industry sectors and sizes. The discussion was great and included fascinating debate around who should own employee experience,...
In our latest blog we speak with Dr Tracy Brower. Sociologist, author and VP of Workplace Insights at Steelcase. Dr Brower talks with Lace Partners’ Chris Howard and Chris Horton about the complexities surrounding the concepts of productivity and happiness at work....
In this week’s blog we hear from published author and LACE Client Executive Director Tim Ringo about why we should stay positive about life, work and moving forwards in the global economy. He tells us what we have to be optimistic about in a time of relentless change...
Our latest Talent Dinner gathered key players to discuss the challenges faced by HR and Talent leaders and, of course, to come up with some solutions. Here’s what we discussed, learned and absorbed. We regularly run networking dinners and have a number of different...
As the big tech firms scramble to try to deliver the next evolution of how AI will impact businesses following the rapid rise to prominence of ChatGPT from Tech firm OpenAI, HR professionals that we speak to are starting to ask us how the application of it could help...
During 2022 we launched a campaign looking at HR’s ‘one big thing’ and one of the biggest challenges Chief People Officers (CPOs) said they were facing was the talent attraction and retention issue. This issue has been a longstanding one for organisations. ...
In this week’s blog we ask our founders Aaron Alburey and Cathy Acratopulo what the key objectives and responsibilities of a Chief People Officer (CPO) or Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) are. With combined decades of experience working closely to these roles...
In March this year we launched our new People and Workforce Analytics service offering, which has been set up to support the people analytics community in driving forward the value it can deliver to businesses through leveraging people analytics. To launch the service...
A key challenge for HR teams and Chief People Officers (CPOs) is the digital employee experience (EX). But does HR even own it? And how best can the digital EX be monitored and managed? Along with new partners Actual Experience, Dave Page and Cathy Acratopulo,...
Talent featured heavily in our ‘One Big Thing’ whitepaper and campaign we ran in late 2022 and in to Q1 2023 this year. We are speaking to organisations regularly about how to solve their talent problems, and one often overlooked solution sits within alumni relations...
We’ve just held the latest of our regular HR Shared Services community forums and, as usual, it was an invaluable opportunity to find out the HRSS zeitgeist in the new-look post-pandemic hybrid workspace. A host of HRSS professionals joined us at the forum and...
