Our latest thinking and thought leadership
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In the spotlight
HR Shared Services Trends 2026 Report
Our latest bi-annual survey of the HR shared services marketplace, with perspectives from CPOs, GBS and HR shared service leaders across 45 global businesses.
Business restructuring. What it takes in practice.
How to deliver change at pace and ensure it performs beyond go-live.
Becoming skills-powered
How to build a skills-based organisation that drives agility, performance and talent mobility.
From implementer to influencer
Discover how HR is evolving from a reactive support function to a strategic influencer in business transformation.
The challenges of talent attraction in Payroll
What are the biggest challenges the Payroll function faces when it comes to attracting talent? Has the skills required to succeed in payroll changed pre and post pandemic? How hot is the market right now? We explore this in the latest HR on the Offensive podcast, with...
How has the concept of financial wellbeing changed in the UK?
How has the global pandemic shifted businesses approach to financial wellbeing? What more can employers be doing to support employees? We explore this in a recent podcast where we discussed a whitepaper the team at Wagestream have produced, which you can download...
What is the art of the possible when it comes to people data and analytics?
How can businesses leverage people data and analytics to improve on their approach to predicting attrition, improving culture and identifying the key talent levers in a business? Chris and Aaron explore this in the latest HR on the Offensive podcast, with Kevin...
How have CPOs built their own resilience in the last two years?
Jacqui Summons, Chief People Officer from EMIS Health, recently spoke to us on our podcast about her experiences over the last two years. We discuss how she and her team have developed resilience amidst some of the toughest experiences the HR profession has ever had...
How can you solve your productivity puzzle?
Tim Ringo, author of 'Solving the Productivity puzzle' joins Aaron and Chris from LACE to discuss how businesses can solve their own challenges with the productivity of their own people through giving autonomy, purpose and mastery to their own people. They also...
The building blocks HR Directors need for digital transformation
LACE was recently asked to give our view on the digitalisation of HR and what HR teams need to successfully deliver a digital HR transformation in The HR Director magazine. The latest edition can be downloaded here. In today’s blog we’ve summarised some of the key...
What is the state of financial wellbeing in the UK?
How has the global pandemic shifted businesses approach to how the look at financial wellbeing? What more can employers be doing to support employees? How can employees and employers work together to make employees feel less vulnerable when it comes to financial...
How you can boost employee experience in a flexible working world
Our latest blog looks at how organisations can design their flexible working policies to create positive experiences for employees. If you’d like to talk to us about how you differentiate your people experiences, we can help, so get in touch using the contact form...
What is the Resilience Factor for CPOs?
In this week's podcast, we speak to Zellis about their recent report 'The Resilience Factor: CPOs - Post-COVID Boardroom Insights 2021'. We discuss what changes businesses have made and how that has impacted Chief People Officers in their roles. How does resilience...
Is cyber security HR’s problem?
Hybrid and remote working more prevalent, more and more businesses are re-evaluating how much focus cyber security should have. In today’s blog we explore just how much focus HR should have. Is it HR’s top priority and should it be? Evan from our team explores this....
The secret ingredient in your HR Model – HR Change Agents
How can you build an in-house people consulting team to help you better deliver change projects? What can you do to identify the skills and capabilities needed for this? In this week’s blog we hear from James McLintic, one of our directors, for some actionable advice...
Reflections on our latest HR tech event ‘Bridging the gap’
In case you missed it, we recently hosted an event focused entirely on HR technology implementation where we asked panellists Mark Corden from Parkdean resorts and Alastair Logan and Ceridian to tell us what their key lessons learned were from projects they have...
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