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The shift to hybrid working has created new challenges for FMs and workplace leaders tasked with protecting employee wellbeing. While traditional ergonomics programmes were largely designed for centralised offices, today’s workforce operates across multiple environments: corporate offices, home workspaces and shared locations. This dispersion makes it significantly harder to ensure employees are working safely and…

Installation is just the beginning, long-term performance, compliance and return on investment depend on structured lifecycle maintenance, not just reactive repair. In electrical contracting, project completion is often treated as the finish line. Systems are commissioned, certificates are issued and the installation team moves on. Yet in reality, that moment is only the starting point…

Back to Basics is an article series that highlights important, but possibly overlooked, information facilities management professionals should know. Many workplaces are staffed by workers with different employers—a host company, contractors, and staffing agencies. If you own or operate a facility, you have complete responsibility for the health and safety of your own employees and a…

As a facilities management professional, I have had to manage everything with spreadsheets, an IT help desk system, and manual data tracking. No CMMS. No integrated facilities platform. Just systems thinking discipline, and the determination to prove that facilities management deserves proper tools. The thought that facilities management is a multifaceted job doing it mostly…

For facilities managers, disruption rarely arrives in a single form. It may begin with a fuel delivery that costs more than expected, a delayed shipment of materials, a piece of equipment that is suddenly harder to replace, or a site incident that interrupts the day’s plan before crews are fully underway. In today’s uncertain environment,…

Facilities managers must be involved in reorganization planning from the beginning. The announcement of my NYC and DC office reorganization project came in on Tuesday. By Wednesday, I was fielding questions about desk assignments, technology needs and whether people could keep their workstations, offices, bullpens etc. By Friday, I realized nobody had thought about where…