SOCIAL - BLOG
British Council for Offices @BCO_UK
We’ve worked on the Future of Work campaign
https://bit.ly/3o41Z5X with @MediaplanetUK
#FutureofWork
Paul Bagust https://www.linkedin.com/in/
paul-bagust-b0420520/ Global Property
Standards Director at RICS - The new #RICS
paper “The Age of Unreal Estate” sets out
our thinking on the opportunities ahead
- data led, people centric and sustainable
#facilitiesmanagement #builtenvironment
Neil Usher https://www.linkedin.com/
pulse/future-workplace-triple-bottom-linepeople
neil-usher, Chief Workplace & Change
Strategist @ GoSpace AI Is a people-centric
workplace possible? What do you think? #office
#workplace #technology #change
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Phil Bentley @PhilBentleyCEO - Last week I
had a (virtual) sit down with @FMJ_Sara to
discuss what the Interserve FM acquisition
will mean for our colleagues, customers and
the communities we serve. Have a read of the
interview here: www.fmj.co.uk/mitie-future/
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We are pleased to have partnered with the
Social Value Portal and National Social Value
Taskforce to develop a new measurement
framework for social value, designed
specifically for the workplace and FM
profession. http://ow.ly/N8x150CEvK4
18 DECEMBER/JANUARY 2021
BLOG FROM RORY MURPHY, COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR, VINCI FACILITIES
THE FUTURE’S
BRIGHT
The ability for the UK and global
economies to recover post COVID has
clearly had a boost over the last couple
of weeks. The development of at least three
seemingly e ective vaccines have given a focus
to our positivity and shone a glimmer of light
on planning and delivering our sector out of the
uncertainty and tragedy that this pandemic has
brought.
The health of any economy though requires
a number of factors: confidence, a good quality
and stable government and available resources.
This pandemic will be remembered for many
things, not least our growing understanding of
medical science, our reliance on care workers
and those that undertake critical roles in the
maintenance and operation of assets. The rolling
lockdowns have also given us a real appreciation
of what freedoms we enjoy and the fragility and
interconnectivity of our planet.
The last year has supercharged our digital
revolution, it has highlighted the importance
of community and it has brought wellbeing,
loneliness and our mental health into sharp focus.
The future, however, is bright, although one of
the risks that we must not allow to manifest itself
is the threatened generational scarring that this
pandemic may cause amongst the young.
A whole pandemic year group and maybe two
will have missed out on all the formality and life
experience of sitting their GCSE’s or ’A’ levels…
A year group that having navigated that damp
squib of an end to school life are now su ering
faceless on-line lectures as they are locked down
in student halls with no real prospect of anything
like the ‘university experience’ returning until
next year.
A year group that somehow got blamed for
spreading the virus by having the audacity to
attempt to progress their education at University
in spite of COVID-19. The school leavers who have
attempted to come in to the workplace straight
from school have been confronted by diminishing
opportunities for apprenticeships and firms
closing the door on any new roles as economic
reality bites.
In addition to this school leaving cohort we
have also seen some businesses in the built
environment furlough and ultimately let go large
numbers of their graduate communities, all of
which has both an immediate impact on those
Rory Murphy, Commercial Director, VINCI Facilities
a ected but will also have a long-term e ect on
our sectors talent pipeline in the future.
This is surely a time to invest in our young
people, to take a longer more sustainable view.
This younger generation are mostly digital
natives, they bring skills and values that will
complement and improve all of our working
practices. This generation understand the
needs of the planet, they are more rounded
and grounded with regard to sustainability in
its broadest sense and the role we all have in
the social and environmental wellbeing of our
communities. This is a time to embrace that
youth, that enthusiasm, that wide eyed clarity
of purpose and harness that for the good of
our sector and not discard it due to short term
financial pain.
I had the pleasure over the last couple of weeks
of helping judge the RICS Young Surveyor of the
year, initially in the FM and Asset Management
category and then ultimately across all the
various pathways within the RICS. Why is that
important?
What being a judge has shown me is that we
have a wealth of amazing and incredibly diverse
talent across our sector… Individuals who are
enthusiastic, driven, professional, compassionate
and successful. These young people have been
nurtured and supported by their managers and
businesses and will undoubtedly be a credit to
themselves, our sector and their organisations
going forward.
The future as I said is bright, but we must not
repeat the mistakes of the past and feel that
investment in training and developing our future
talent is a lever to pull when economic hardships
abound. The scarring causing by COVID-19
will be long and deep across our economy and
communities, what we must not do in our sector
is increase that su ering with our own selfinflicted
scars to the very people who are the
future of our industry and sector.
ADVICE & OPINION
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