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While AI is heralded as a transformative force across industries, a quieter challenge threatens to slow its momentum: the growing shortage of skilled AI professionals. Behind the buzz of breakthroughs lies a stark reality — companies are racing to adopt AI, but many are leaving their people behind. Recent data shows the skills required for…

If you’re looking after facilities in 2025, you’re not just managing square footage—you’re shaping the systems that power the workplace. With the move back to the office, businesses are re-evaluating how their spaces operate, not just how they look. Done right, smarter space planning can improve the in-office experience while also driving operational efficiency and…

More organizations are looking to bolster their safety initiatives to further prevent serious injuries. It’s not an exaggeration when a facility manager says that they take safety seriously. If someone gets injured on the job, it could delay projects and potentially cost the company thousands of dollars. Workplace injuries also run the risk of getting…

  As enrollment and funding pressures have intensified in recent years, colleges are increasingly looking to share services with each other to help stabilize their own finances. The collaborations are mainly on backend services and operational functions to help the colleges lower their costs and increase their bargaining power with suppliers. Among the operational and project…

People don’t leave their identities at home when they come to work—and their environment shouldn’t ask them to. Whether it’s through flexible layouts or sensory-conscious design, the modern workplace must be designed with intentionality and show up for its people. In this conversation, Koorosh Sharghi, President of Studio TK, and Sara Agrest, Design Director at…

  The assisted living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, that caught fire in mid-July, killing 10 people, had safety certification problems in 2023 but after a preliminary look into the cause, the state fire marshal says the fire likely stemmed from a resident’s oxygen tank. Either the tank malfunctioned or oxygen from the tank ignited…