Littering and fly-tipping has escalated during lockdown with many FMs reporting that they’re having to deal with illegal disposal of waste around their buildings. Aaron Georgiou, CEO and Founder of Litta offers advice on tackling the problem Fly-tipping has long ...
Read More »Remotest threat
March 2020 saw reams of businesses close their physical doors and retreat to the safety of remote working. However, this presents new challenges to the safety and cybersecurity of organisations. Andy Compton, Founder and CEO of Cortida outlines the risks ...
Read More »Academic success
For the facilities team at Manchester Met University’s busy student accommodation sites, COVID-19 caused severe disruption without the assistance of their usual subcontractors. Cain Smith reports on how they fared during a busy and remarkable time For all the academic ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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, ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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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