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Alan Hutchinson, Facilities Director, Howard Kennedy LLP
Charles Siddons, Head of Operations, NHS Property Services
Darren Miller, Head of EMEA Facilities Operations, PayPal
Ian Wade, Head of UK Estates, British Medical Association
Lucy Hind, Senior FM Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University
Marie Johnson, Head of Workplace & Wellbeing, Nominet
Russell Wood, Facilities Manager at Dentsu Aegis Network
Russell Burnaby, Head of FM, Regeneration and Environment, Brent Council
Simon Francis, Principal Lead, Estates and Masterplanning, ZSL
Simone Fenton-Jarvis, Workplace Consultancy Director at Relogix
Stephen Bursi, Facilities Lead, BAE Systems
Stephen Vagg, Head of Estates and Strategy, National Express Group PLC
Vicky Thorp, Head of Facilities Management, CLSH Management
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You can begin to sense a return to normality with
– after three years - the long-awaited return of
the Facilities Show (see preview page 28) in May.
To discover the challenges and opportunities FMs
anticipate for the future, FMJ and show organisers
Informa teamed up to conduct a survey on how
FMs and their organisations have responded to the
disruption and their plans are the future.
Were they asking workers to return to the o ice on a
hybrid home/o ice work basis? Did they intend to redesign
workspaces to enable more flexible ways of working? And
have their workplace strategies, including wellbeing and
engagement had to be radically rethought? We’ll do a deeper
dive into the results next month, but so far there have been
some fascinating insights into the realities of supporting new
ways of working.
One respondent noted that open plan workspaces aren’t
always a practical option when you consider the number of
zoom/team’s meetings required to enable hybrid working.
Another has put plans to relocate to a new workspace on hold
until they have gathered a full six months of data in o ice space
requirements.
Echoing many of the discussions at the world’s leading real
estate conference MIPIM (page 36) another respondent felt that
COVID has brought the FM/CRE agile workplace agenda forward.
As with many in FM and CRE, they aim to improve utilisation in
their portfolio and look at ways of reducing their o ice footprint
to drive cost savings and improve environmental credentials.
Yet no matter how much has shi‰ ed over the past two years,
the facilities management remit remains largely unchanged.
The survey found that health and safety, compliance, building
maintenance management, strategic planning & project
management, security and cleaning remain the top six priorities
for FMs. Get those key areas right and sustainability, wellbeing
and improved organisational performance should follow.
As always, we’d welcome your feedback about any aspect of
the magazine, together with your insight into what’s happening
in the FM sector.
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