LACE Partners

JULY 16, 2021

With so many organisations also realising that a remote workforce is impacted by the digital tools they have at their disposal to deliver on their work effectively and efficiently, the rise in importance of delivering an effective digital employee experience has never been so clear.

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LACE Partners

JANUARY 29, 2021

Today’s Life @ LACE Partners blog is from one of our Associates, Abi East, who has worked with the team on a number of exciting projects. We wanted to get some insight into how she found out about LACE Partners, what she enjoys about being an Associate in general, as well as any advice she would give to businesses. .

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LACE Partners

APRIL 28, 2023

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 to support their function and, critically why should they care so much about it?

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LACE Partners

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

At LACE we are of course immersed in the world of HR transformation; we live, sleep, eat and breathe it for our clients. Why should you care about this? There’s an emotional connection to change that is vital to bear in mind to help people work in a different way – taking on a new habit, a new way of operating or working. .

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LACE Partners

JUNE 26, 2020

At LACE Partners we're really proud of the collaborative culture that has developed since we began in 2014. As a team we like to describe ourselves as a big 'family' and as part of an ongoing series we've been running over the last couple of years, today's blog is a 'life @ LACE' blog.

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LACE Partners

OCTOBER 2, 2020

At LACE Partners we really pride ourselves on developing a culture that feels inclusive, whether you are an employee, or one of our associates. This led to a CIPD qualification that eventually took me into the realms of working on HR tech and specifically at the time on Peoplesoft, ESS and MSS as it was at the time.

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LACE Partners

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

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 our post-pandemic world and at the start of the colleague lifecycle with an employer. If you have, or are looking for, a nice tech platform as a wrap for your employee experience then great – review it and use it.

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LACE Partners

MARCH 25, 2022

Today’s blog comes from our Payroll expert Chris Kirby , who heads up our payroll consultancy services at LACE. So why are we seeing the focus shift now? I’ve been involved in many ’journey to the cloud projects, as it is so affectionately labelled, but why? What has changed?

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LACE Partners

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Today’s blog gives an overview of that podcast and some of the core themes, mirroring recent takeaways from LACE Partners’ research, including the HR Shared Services Trends 2022 report, in which one (among many) of the key outputs from respondents was the impact of operational efficiency and why that became so important post pandemic.

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LACE Partners

AUGUST 19, 2022

In a recent HR on the Offensive podcast Chris and Emma Leonis from LACE spoke to Tope Sadiku, Global Head of Digital Employee Experience from Kraft Heinz about just that. I used to think I needed a plan before beginning anything. When a plan was well-defined, I could communicate and begin working on something.

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LACE Partners

OCTOBER 16, 2020

We caught up with Ian Williams, HR Operations expert and Senior Associate at LACE to find out more about his experience and what it’s like to be a part of our team. Tell us a bit of background on yourself, the nature of the work that you do? Tell us a bit of background on yourself, the nature of the work that you do?

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LACE Partners

JANUARY 21, 2022

Raj Sundarason , author of ‘The DAP Strategy’ , recently spoke to Chris from LACE Partners on the HR on the Offensive podcast about his latest book, which makes some bold predictions about the digital adoption market between now and 2027. Hopefully this gives you an idea of why I say it’s just not the platform.

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LACE Partners

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In this week’s blog our in-house payroll ‘doctor’ Chris Kirby tells us how a holistic approach to payroll diagnosis can boost efficiency, experience and return on investment. I can confidently say that on the occasions I have heard these statements – more often than not – the payroll system was working exactly as it should.

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LACE Partners

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This is a transcription of some of the key points from the HR on the Offensive podcast series, the weekly LACE Partners podcast looking at all things HR, addressing the issues that HR professionals are debating and discussing as part of the latest thinking. It is us doing our bit. Workplace flexibility, no dress code, etc.

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LACE Partners

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In this week’s blog LACE Senior Manager Luka Winterborne and MD Cathy Acratopulo and 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 value proposition has never been more important.

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LACE Partners

MARCH 11, 2022

In this week’s blog we look at why employees may quit a job but also what makes other employees want to stay. People leave an organisation if their experience of working there doesn’t match up to their expectations. Stay interviews are a great way to get that type of information. Maintaining expectations.

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LACE Partners

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Someone hasn’t fully checked out of the organisation, but they’ve decide there not going to go above and beyond anymore, so in other words “ I’m going to do what I need to do my job, but little more ” i.e., the basics, working just the standard hours – working to rule. The impact of COVID impact still lingers within the world of work.

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LACE Partners

MARCH 4, 2022

As somebody who has worked in the talent management industry for many years I have seen a shift, and the emphasis on delivering an excellent experience is much more prevalent than 10+ years ago. . Getting validation from real people is important and so the days of a glossy employer brand video are behind us.

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LACE Partners

APRIL 9, 2021

At LACE we pride ourselves on our knowledge and understanding of the HR tech landscape. Today’s blog is an overview of a round table discussion we ran in March 2021, discussing with some of our HR Tech Advisory Team why it is a buyers' market for HR tech products right now, and how that is likely to change over the course of the next year.

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LACE Partners

MARCH 6, 2020

He works in the charity sector and was recounting his challenges with his current line manager. We started to muse over this and a wider issue that – bit of a work-related plug alert – my company LACE Partners touched on in a whitepaper we wrote last year. I was in the pub the other day with a friend of mine.

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LACE Partners

MAY 14, 2021

Can you give us a bit of insight into some of the key learnings you’ve seen through app development? We’d been building apps for our customers for years and about five years ago one of the world’s leading banks approached us to help support their HR team through a large transformation phase within the business.

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LACE Partners

MAY 21, 2020

To navigate these stormy seas, businesses will need to be ready to adapt and flex, changing their approach and find new ways of working – adding more noise into already complex organisations. The post Resilient payroll in a changing world appeared first on LACE Partners - Global HR Transformation and Technology Adoption Specialists.

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LACE Partners

JUNE 10, 2022

Aaron Alburey from our team digs into the reasons why and explains how HR is essential to get people’s buy-in to any transformation. Any form of business transformation expects employees to take on a whole new way of working. Why HR will ask – and answer – the right questions. They want to know: why is this good for me?

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LACE Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2021

There are a few common statements we hear from payroll and HR professionals who approach us at LACE Partners to discuss challenges they are having with their payroll function, be it the system or the processes that aren’t quite working for them. This brings us to complexity. Handling the repeatable questions.

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LACE Partners

APRIL 21, 2023

Tim Ringo in our team recently wrote an article on the impact that tapping in to the protirees market can have for businesses, which has been followed by the Government Spring Budget, that looked to i ncentivise groups of people to return to work. The workforce is reacting very positively to these changes.

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LACE Partners

AUGUST 13, 2021

What did the report tell us about the top priorities for HR leaders in 2021 and beyond? Why – from an employee experience (EX) perspective – can technology have such an impact on people’s productivity? Read on for a summary of these key points. . Digital transformation top of the agenda for HR leaders .

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LACE Partners

APRIL 1, 2022

In today’s blog Evan from our team took a look at the impact of the proposed pilot of a four-day work week will have in the UK. Can it be more productive than the traditional five-day work week? If you didn’t know already, the world of work has rapidly transformed. What are the implications? How will employees react?

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LACE Partners

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It has been broken down into three phases: a daption and reaction to the crisis and delivering new models, with people quickly being forced to work from home, then the furlough scheme which needed quick, rapid, tactical HR issues. The moment is now upon us. It isn’t always as easy as stating that the world can work from home however.

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LACE Partners

AUGUST 14, 2020

On Wednesday 29 th July we hosted the latest in our ongoing LACE Partners webinar series (you can watch the recorded version of the webinar series here) which looked at the role that the digital employee experience plays in the working world post Covid-19. when they get home from a hard day’s work may fall on deaf ears.

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LACE Partners

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Why are some employers finding it challenging to recruit Gen Z workers? To digital natives like Gen Z, using their smartphone to find a job is normal and expected. Why is the dynamic different when hiring Gen Z? Gen Z expect to apply quickly, if they are being assessed and told why they’re fine with that.

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LACE Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Why is this important and relevant to employers and HR teams? As an example, earlier this year we spoke to a HR team working for a large chain of fast-food restaurants who had set up a hardship fund for employees during the pandemic. For today’s blog we’ve included a summary of some of the key points of the discussion.

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LACE Partners

APRIL 14, 2023

With combined decades of experience working closely to these roles helping to lead HR transformation programmes, Aaron and Cathy tell us what good looks like now – and how this has evolved over time. What are the types of traits we tend to see in CPOs? Commerciality The first trait is commerciality.

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LACE Partners

MARCH 18, 2022

The aim is to get everybody in an organisation to think about what the outcomes are that they are working to create, rather than the tactical outputs that they themselves must deliver on from a day-to-day basis. . There are various frameworks organisations can use to measure that individual contributor performance.

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LACE Partners

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Historically, a Payroll team worked to a standard industry approach of having a ‘cut off period’ by which payroll must be processed. This is a relatively newly emerging technology, but one of the most frequent reasons as to why this is not viable for organisations is when looked through the lens of the potential cost-per-transaction basis.

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LACE Partners

MAY 28, 2021

Applaud have recently released a digital EX trends report so we wanted to find out what they learnt and discuss how and why organisations should hyper-personalise their employee experience. These organisations almost used pandemic as a catalyst for change, whereas others had to really fight hard to embrace change within their organisation.

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LACE Partners

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As always it is important to ask yourselves the question, “why do we want this, what is our aim and what difference is it going to make?”. As always it is important to ask yourselves the question, “why do we want this, what is our aim and what difference is it going to make?”. So, what should you be looking at?

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LACE Partners

MARCH 23, 2023

It looks at why alumni relations are often de-prioritised, as well as what options there are for businesses looking at making the most of the talent pools already at their disposal. Today’s blog is written by our talent expert and Executive Director David Pacifico. What do you need to do to establish a successful alumni programme?

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