LACE Partners and Actual Experience are joining together in partnership to support Chief People Officers (CPOs) and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) successfully deliver digital transformation within their businesses. This partnership will bring together businesses...
Last year we released our HR's 'one big thing' report, which looked at what the biggest strategic issues are for Chief People Officer's (CPOs) and, following a campaign in which we've looked in detail at the 'top three' key issues that CPOs said were keeping them up...
What are the key trends in the people analytics space? Which challenges will be most significant moving forward? We recently tasked ourselves to find out. At the end of 2022 we interviewed People and Workforce Analytics leaders representing a range of...
Over the last three months our team have been drilling down into some of the most pressing concerns of Chief People Officers / Chief Human Resources Officers to find out what HR's 'One Big Thing’ is. We’ve run a host of events, podcasts, as well as blogs and short...
In our latest 60-second video Martina Salander from our team talks through the importance of being able to clearly distinguish between your employee value proposition (EVP) and your employee experience. Why is it so important and what should HR teams be thinking about...
Over the last few weeks there have been a number of articles that have talked about 'copycat layoffs', with the World Economic Forum even adding the term to its list of the 'biggest buzzwords' of 2023. In today's special blog we've asked Chris Horton from our team to...
Last year, LACE Consultant Evan Wynn wrote a blog looking at the four-day working week, focusing on the positives and potential challenges associated with this flexible working initiative. Since then, the UK has run the largest trial of a four-day working week, which...
It's time for our third and final blog of our productivity silver bullet series! In case you missed them, part one showed set the context for hybrid working and it's history in working life. In part two, Tim looked at how to optimise the opportunity to improve people...
Leading HR consultancy LACE Partners has today announced a significant investment from private equity business Mobeus. Co-founders of LACE, Aaron Alburey and Cathy Acratopulo, said it will help to ‘supercharge’ the business ahead of increasing demand for strategic HR...
In part one of our series about ‘The Productivity Silver Bullet’, published last week, we defined what the silver bullet is and backed up the idea that it is one of those rare times when an apparent “magical” solution can be found to a lingering problem. Evidence...
In this three-part series, Tim Ringo from our team considers whether home and hybrid working is the ‘silver bullet’ for greater productivity that many purport it to be – and what that might mean for your organisation’s working practices. The COVID19 pandemic was the...
In one of our latest pieces, Tim Ringo from our team takes a look at a recent article in The Times that focused on a government campaign to bring over-50's out of retirement, assessing the impact for businesses. Could this be a talent pool that businesses can...
What are the top five trends we are expecting for HR in 2023? We are facing a tough year with complex economic and geopolitical challenges and continuing shifts in working life. In this week's blog we hear from the LACE team about their predictions for HR teams for...
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...
