In the News

For the second time in August we were asked to comment in Worklife on the value of anonymous feedback surveys. What are the benefits and drawbacks? Debbie from our team commented.

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In August we were asked for our thoughts on the current trend of ‘quiet quitting’. Our Managing Director and Co-Founder Cathy Acratopulo was quoted.

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Following the launch of our HR Shared Services Trends Report we were featured in Employer News, underlining how continuous improvement reminds HR’s Achilles heel.

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In July our Senior Manager Liz Bailey was quoted in an article on what it takes to be an authentic leader, featured on the Employee Benefits website.

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In June one of our Senior Managers, Kayley Gaylor, was featured in HR review online, discussing the importance of data protection and whether it is a problem for the HR team or other departments. 

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In May our Co-Founder Aaron Alburey was asked to give his thoughts on how HR gets better buy-in from stakeholders, on the online version of Unleash’s news website. 

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April’s edition of the HR Director magazine saw our Executive Client Director Max Bailey featured discussing the importance of getting your data organised and effective before embarking on any digital transformation.

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In the Thursday 28th April edition of The Guardian LACE Partners was featured as one of the top ‘Great Places to Work’. We are delighted to be ranked within the top 30 of all small companies in the UK!

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In February 2022 our Co-Founder Cathy Acratopulo was featured online and in print in the HR Director Magzine, where she talked about the balance of hybrid working, wellbeing and what businsses need to focus on when it comes to attraction and retention. Read the article here.

In October 2021 Max Bailey from our team was asked to comment on budgeting in a post COVID world. You can read his comments in the article here.

In October 2021 we were asked by People Management magazine to provide our thoughts on the HR tech that will be needed under hybrid working post pandemic. Aaron was asked for his thoughts, which you can read here.

In September our Co-Founder Aaron was featured in HRZone talking about making your business case for your HR Cloud strategy and readiness. Read the article here.

In September Aaron Alburey was featured online on Wired in an article talking about boomerang employees returning back to previous businesses they have worked for. Read the article here.

In August our Co-Founder Aaron Alburey was featured in the digital and online version of The HR Director Magazine, with his two page feature looking at organisation design in the new era we live in. Read the article here.

Our June 2021 article on the impact of the pandemic on HR teams was also featured on HR Grapevine’s website. Read the article here.

In June 2021 we were featured across a number of different media articles including Employer News, UK Business News, SME Business News, UK News Latest, HRD Pathfinder News and AllPosts, following some research we conducted looking at whether HR Directors and senior HR professionals are experiencing burnout. Read the Employer News article here.

Our survey in June 2021 on the impact of the pandemic on HR Directors and their teams was featured online on HR Magazine’s website. To find out more about how HR Directors and CPOs are potentially facing burnout, read the article here.

Our June 2021 survey on the burnout that HRDs are facing was featuring in HRreview. If you would like to read the article you can do so here.

In May 2021 our Managing Director and Co-Founder Aaron Alburey was asked to give some insight in to the global challenges HR teams face when they are looking at the payroll landscape. Read the article featured online for Unleash here.

In May 2021 Liz Sanders from LACE Partners was quoted in D&I Leaders online portal, on the importance of ‘belonging’ and how that impacts people’s working life. You can read the article here.

In May 2021 Aaron Alburey was quoted in an article within the HRDirector Magazine about businesses downsizing their office space in the post-pandemic era. This joint piece was also written with our partners Applaud. Click here to read the article. 

In February 2021 Consultancy UK ran a feature on some of the HR trends our team had predicted for 2021. Click here to read the article and see what trends were predicted.

In April 2021 we were asked to comment on how the COVID-19 pandemic has re-enforced the importance of HR and our Co-Founder and Managing Director Cathy Acratopulo was quoted in HRO today. Read the whole article today.

In May 2020 we were featured on the online version of The HRDirector. The piece is from Cathy and looked at one of the startling stats from a recent LACE webinar – that 89% of HR professionals suggested that they had no plan, or were still developing a plan, for the transition back to ‘business as usual’ following the global pandemic. Click here to view the full article.

In March 2020 Emma Leonis from LACE Partners was featured in an article assessing what process mining is and how it is finding its way into the vocabulary of HR Teams. Click here to see the full article.

In April 2020 we were featured in an online HR Magazine article looking at how HR can help to support and step up when a leader of an organisation has been suddenly stopped from performing their duty (like Boris Johnson during the Covid-19 global pandemic, in which he contracted the virus). Click here to view the full article.

In July, following the launch of ‘HR on the Offensive’, HR Grapevine ran an overview of the findings of the whitepaper in their online news section. Click here to see the article.

In April 2019 our Co-Founder Aaron Alburey was interviewed in an article about choosing the right tech selection. You can find a copy of the interview in the hard copy version of April 2019’s People Management magazine.

Our Co-Founder Aaron Alburey was featured in the October 2019 edition of HR Magazine, in a tech supplement, with the article entitled ‘Building Blocks’.

Aaron Alburey was featured in September’s People Management magazine – in hard copy print – for advice on what HR professionals need to think of when selecting a chat bot partner.

When our Marketing Director Chris joined the business in July, Consultancy UK ran a piece which quoted Chris and Co-Founder Aaron Alburey, as part of LACE Partners growth strategy in 2019. Click here to see the article.