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  Facilities leaders are heading into 2026 with a lot to balance. Buildings are aging, budgets are tight, hybrid work as the standard still needs to be optimized and AI is shifting from a buzzword to something leaders expect meaningful outcomes from. This year will make the difference between industry leaders and everyone else much more…

The contemporary American professional landscape is at a turning point. While people are sticking with their employers, they feel more disconnected than ever. Gallup calls this the ‘Great Detachment’. When employees aren’t engaged, businesses pay a high price. Globally, businesses lose $8.8 trillion every year because employees are disengaged. To put that in perspective, that…

Disabilities are more common than we may realize, affecting the everyday lives of real people in heartbreaking ways. The CDC observes that over 28 percent of people in the US suffer from one or more physical disabilities. These could be related to cognition or mobility, vision, or hearing. Sometimes, a tragic accident may leave you…

The December holidays arrived with a bang in northeast Iowa, as a controlled demolition process brought down major sections of the nearly century-old Lansing Bridge. Performed on Dec. 19, the implosion sent the center and Wisconsin-side spans of the steel through truss structure tumbling into the frigid Mississippi River. The remaining sections, which span over…

We’ve just concluded our 25th year since the website GreenBiz.com — now Trellis.net — debuted: “The Resource Center on Business, the Environment and the Bottom Line,” read its tagline at the time. We’ve now been covering sustainable business for a quarter century — not quite since the beginning of the era, but still from its…

The hybrid workplace is here to stay—and with it comes a new challenge: ensuring employees can be productive, collaborative, and comfortable no matter where they work. For today’s professionals, moving between home offices, corporate campuses, client sites, and on-the-go locations is the norm. What shouldn’t be the norm is losing valuable time to wrestling with…