Our latest thinking and thought leadership
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Less stress HRIS - Part three: Beyond launch
Part three of our Less stress series focuses towards optimising your HR technology system.
Optimal payroll starts with the foundations
Laying the foundations for an optimal Payroll function.
The efficiency paradox
Boosting productivity in the face of economic constraints.
Less stress HRIS - Part two: Beyond basecamp
Learn the essential steps for setting up your HRIS for long-term success.
Less stress HRIS - Part one: The road to the Cloud
Our latest whitepaper, 'Less stress HRIS - The road to the Cloud,' will help you prepare for a successful HRIS implementation.
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Is your payroll evolving beyond borders?
This special edition of the HR on the Offensive podcast features an overview of an event being run by our friends at Neeyamo, who are running an event in January called 'Evolve Beyond Borders'. Today's podcast features Chris Howard and Chris Kirby from LACE, quizzing...
What innovations have payroll providers delivered in 2022?
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...
Five years at LACE, five lessons learned
In our latest 60 seconds video, our Brand and Communications Lead - Eve Edmonds discusses her milestone five years at LACE and what she has learned along the way. Step out of your comfort zone, resilience and utilise your unique selling point, read about this and more...
“Digital talent” roundtable reflections
Listen to this podcast to hear the key takeaways from our latest networking dinner where we discussed one of the main themes from our ‘One Big Thing’ research launched in October this year: Talent attraction and retention. In partnership with author and HR...
How to ready your data for an HRIS implementation
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...
How does internal mobility help retain talent?
When resourcing for talent should businesses focus finding it internally rather than looking externally. How can businesses better advertise their opportunities to internal talent? Managers often see internal mobility as a loss instead, they should accept that it’s an...
HR Shared Services talk recruitment, retention and perception
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...
HR technology vision, investment case and product selection
For this project the client in question was embarking on the first stage of a strategic cloud transformation journey. The first phase in 2022 assessed and developed the options and costs for a global core HR technology platform across three separate businesses which...
The seven trends HR should be aware of in 2023
In this episode Chris speaks to Gary Stringer, from HowNow, about an article he has written on the Seven HR Trends to Win 2023. In it Gary tells us about the top trends HR can take advantage of to start the next year strong: Listening more (and show it is) Performance...
HR’s ‘one big thing’ in 60 seconds
What is the most pressing strategic objective for senior HR professionals in the next 18 - 24 months? What are Chief People Officers (CPOs) most concerned about and what is keeping them up at night? How do they tackle these issues? In our latest 60 second video Chris...
Avoid the COVID19 crisis mistakes: INVEST MORE in technology and talent, not less
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,...
Making the move from in-house to HR consulting
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...
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