At LACE we're often asked what it means to 'get the basics right' when it comes to Payroll Departments and best practice. To us there are a number of different elements to consider here; whether it's from truly understanding the strengths and weaknesses of your...
Chris and Cathy Acratopulo welcome Simon Smith, Chief People Officer of Aston Martin, as their guest to discuss the crucial topic of employee experience and employee listening. Simon highlights its significance, particularly in smaller organisations where...
In our latest 60 seconds video, we talk to Debbie from our team about a framework we have put together that identifies the top traits that we have observed from the best performing People functions. We've got ten traits in total and the video below explains what the...
In this podcast episode, Chris along with LACE Senior Manager Adam Morris is joined by Ana Laiu, the Head of Payroll at the PPHE Hotel Group. The PPHE Hotel Group is a hospitality company that operates across Europe and the UK managing hotels and resorts. Each with...
In the latest of our fireside chat series of videos, Chris, Debbie, Adam and Chris talk about the impact that technology can play in helping to redefine workforce productivity. How much of a role does generative AI play, for example, on how productive the workforce...
In our latest 'fireside chat' video Chris Howard, Debbie Mitchell, Adam Morris and Chris Horton talk about our latest campaign focused on why businesses need to redefine the narrative around workforce productivity. The team look at why it is a dated term, why we feel...
A key challenge for HR teams and Chief People Officers (CPOs) is the digital employee experience (EX). But does HR even own it? And how best can the digital EX be monitored and managed? Along with new partners Actual Experience, Dave Page and Cathy Acratopulo,...
Talent featured heavily in our ‘One Big Thing’ whitepaper and campaign we ran in late 2022 and in to Q1 2023 this year. We are speaking to organisations regularly about how to solve their talent problems, and one often overlooked solution sits within alumni relations...
As a technology agnostic business, we’re often asked to provide our thoughts on the evolution of the payroll provider market and what has changed. As the year draws to an end, we thought we would reflect on some of the key developments and share. One of our resident...
What should you benchmark? Why should you benchmark? What are others benchmarking? And what are the cautionary tales? We explore this in the latest HR on the Offensive podcast featuring Chris Howard and Cathy Acratopulo from the LACE Partners team....
We recently featured a podcast with the CEO of Level Financial Technology, Stephen Holliday, looking at the impact of financial wellbeing on today’s workforce. For today’s blog we’ve included a summary of some of the key points of the discussion. If you would like to...
What is best practice when it comes to using data metrics to measure and monitoring your DE&I practices? What are common data points companies are using? We explore this in the latest HR on the Offensive podcast, with the team from The Clear Company, who have...
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. In today’s blog we’ve...
In this latest episode we talk to Kamran Mallick and Cameron Lynch from Disability Rights UK about their Disability Employment Charter. What more can Government do to help disabled people get into the workplace and how can businesses be more inclusive by using the...
Earlier this year we were asked to give our view on a perspective that an optimal number of employees per line manager was between eight to ten. But with leaders not in the same room, should this be reduced? We reflected on this in a piece featured the HR Director...
