Combating burnout: five practical steps for leaders

Combating burnout: five practical steps for leaders

  In today’s relentless workplace, tackling burnout among leaders is a pressing reality. Constantly putting out fires and reacting to crises, leaders are facing unprecedented levels of stress. According to a recent survey by International SOS, 80% of risk management experts predict that stress and burnout will significantly impact their businesses and employees this year….

CrowdStrike IT Outage: Why Facilities Managers Should Take Notice

CrowdStrike IT Outage: Why Facilities Managers Should Take Notice

Facilities management is one of many industries that have grown increasingly digitized and interconnected over the last several years. Technology is now integral to ensuring smooth facility operations, maintaining safety, tracking assets in real-time using the Internet of Things (IoT), optimizing the utilization of resources, and so on. As recent events have shown, when essential…

Demand for flexible workspaces is on the rise

Demand for flexible workspaces is on the rise

Office landlords in the UK are going to significantly increase the amount of square footage in their builds that is dedicated to flexible workspace, new research by workspace provider, infinitSpace has revealed. The company, which commissioned an independent survey of 250 UK office landlords, found that on average, respondents to the survey predict that over…

New green buildings strategy mostly a rehash

New green buildings strategy mostly a rehash

The Canadian government’s newly released green buildings strategy contains little that is actually new for commercial real estate and public sector facilities. Rather, it’s an after-the-fact summary of programs and policies that have already been announced and funding initiatives that are mostly in progress — fulfilling the 2022 federal budget promise for an overarching masterplan,…