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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.
HR: Make the most of budget season 2022
HR budget planning for 2022 is already underway as 2021 comes to a close. With this in mind, we were recently invited by Unleash to talk about the key challenges and considerations HR teams need to be thinking through as they set their budgets and map out their...
How should HR respond to ‘The Great Resignation’?
In this week’s blog LACE Senior Manager Luka Winterborne and MD Cathy Acratopulo respond to one of the hottest topics in HR at the moment: ‘The Great Resignation’. Read on to learn what questions every HR Director should be asking themselves and why your employee...
Is the future of payroll real-time payments?
In a recent HR on the Offensive podcast we spoke to Ian Wheeler from Income Group about this emerging technology, the impact it is having on the payroll landscape and what the future might hold. Payroll: real-time payments vs faster payments – what are they?...
HR technology integration: Is there really a ‘tech overload’ post pandemic?
In 2021, many businesses experienced a year of change, with organisations quickly adapting through the rapid deployment of HR technology integrations. However, as we approach the Q4 calendar year, there has been talk of ‘tech overload’ across trade and national media....
Life at LACE: Onboarding in a flexible working world
,This week’s blog is a ‘Life at LACE’ piece from one of our newest hires about their experience of being hired and onboarded in a post-pandemic flexible working world and at the start of the colleague lifecycle with an employer. Luka Winterborne compares his recent...
AI in HR: Accelerating the power of your people – what you need to know
How can businesses find the balance between AI and human connection? What do we think the future of AI will look like in HR? In this week’s blog our host Romy Hobson speaks to LACE Partners tech advisory experts Aaron Alburey and Racheal Capel to discuss where we are...
Blockchain’s role in the future of HR
In this week’s blog we hear from our very own Racheal Capel, one of our Technology Advisory Managers, about one of the most commonly heard and least well understood buzzwords in the industry: Blockchain. Read more to learn what the future may hold for Blockchain in...
Has the global pandemic really brought work/life balance?
Has the global pandemic really brought work/life balance? In 2020 the team at Culture Amp produced Hindsight is 2020, a report analysing the emergency response feedback surveys produced for customers during the pandemic. Chris and Emma from LACE Partners recently sat...
What are the ‘next big things’ in payroll technology?
What are the big emerging trends in payroll technology? What impact is data and analytics, AI, RPA and blockchain having for payroll professionals? In the latest episode we talk to Sam Isaac from Neeyamo about their whitepaper which looked at all of the above, as well...
What impact can financial wellbeing have on your workforce?
In this week's podcast, we are joined by Stephen Holliday, CEO of Level Financial Technology, to talk about the impact of financial wellbeing on workforce. What do we mean by the term and why should it be at the top of business leaders' agendas? Listen in to find out...
How are you articulating your employee wellness journey?
Dr Tracey Leghorn from Suez expands on some of the initiatives that her and her team have worked on at Suez and how they supported employees with their own wellness through a variety of different activities that involve including employees in setting the agenda for...
Uniting at LACE for National Inclusion Week
This week is National Inclusion Week and at LACE Partners we’ve been embracing the importance of diversity and inclusion through a variety of different initiatives. For this week’s blog we will focus on some of the activities, and also let you hear from one of our...
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