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Dinner date

Sebastian Gray, Director at energy management consultancy 2EA and incoming Chair of the Rumford Club explains the benefits for those working within the built environment and engineering services sector of joining the social dining and debate club For professionals working ...

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FM Clinic: Workplace dining in the ‘new normal’

With the gradual return of staff to the workplace, in-house catering facilities which have been on hiatus during the lockdown can begin to ramp back up. But with the situation still being far from normal, how can caterers and their ...

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Career Ladder talks to the Senior Development Engineer at QD for Operation and Maintenance

Q: How did you progress through the profession to your current role? While looking back to 2009 when I graduated, I had no idea what facilities management was. I started my professional career in ICT sector and worked for over ...

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Getting people online

The global crisis has led organisations to completely rethink and revitalise how they recruit and onboard new employees. We learn how to utilise the latest technologies and techniques to successfully bring new people onboard, wherever they are based Over the ...

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Home working lessons for FMs

Blog from Tim Oldman, Founder and CEO, Leesman How ironic. Facilities management spent years distancing itself from cleaning and janitorial services, casting these out as undervalued, commoditised and margin-less activities, in favour of the sparkly lights of workplace management. Then, ...

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Strength in numbers

Rachel Houghton, Managing Director, Business Moves Group on how training, development and leadership can help build a resilient team Resilience is a term that can get thrown around to the point we forget what it truly means. It is in ...

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Mobile/travelling employee safety and COVID-19

As the UK begins to ease its way out of the current COVID-19 lockdown measures (albeit at different speeds across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland); employers may be thinking about asking their employees to begin travelling for work again ...

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Solitary people

Given the dispersal of staff owing to social distancing rules during the Coronavirus, protecting facilities management’s legion of lone workers has never been more important says Peoplesafe CEO Naz Dossa The diverse set of services required to manage any large ...

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Mark of approval

Retendering is often the first port-of-call for facilities managers who want to understand whether they are getting value for money from their service providers. John Brownless, Partner at LitmusFM looks at the alternative option of benchmarking In a post-pandemic environment, ...

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Is bike best?

From sustainable routes to work to eco delivery, can the humble bicycle play a part in making facilities management more sustainable? Andrew Brown reports A new campaign was launched by the bicycle industry in early June: #BikeIsBest. Backed by the ...

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