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What innovations have payroll providers delivered in 2021?
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...

Benchmarking: HR’s friend or foe?
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....

How do you build synergy between global payroll and employee experience?
How do you build synergy between global payroll and employee experience? Is there an easy solution or is it more complicated? This and more answered in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doKtMi5Xnyo Check out these additional resources on...

Financial wellbeing and its impact on the workforce
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...

How can you effectively measure DE&I?
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...

Payroll complexity – The elephant in the room
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...

How can businesses make their workplaces more inclusive for disabled people?
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...

Organisational design in 2022 – what should we expect?
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...

What key factors should you consider when developing your digital adoption plan?
Raj Sundarason, author of 'The DAP Strategy', talks to Chris from LACE Partners about his latest book, which makes some bold predictions about the digital adoption market between now and 2027. Find out some of those predictions in the latest episode, out now. ...

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s back to work we go – or is it?
Encouraging people to return to work post-pandemic can be a delicate balancing act for HR Directors. There have been numerous headlines recently about global tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook pushing for more office working. So are we now seeing a large...

What are the six shifts in candidate experience?
What shifts do employers, employees, candidates and recruiters need to think about when it comes to delivering the next level of candidate experience? We explore this in our latest podcast with Merv Dinnen, an HR industry influencer, who has recently written a...

How can HR enable hybrid working employees?
For many organisations, the time for nine-to-five office-based operations is over for good. The world of work has changed – and continues to do so. We were recently asked by People Management about technology and hybrid-working, which got us thinking.... How can...