Facility Management Articles

How Design Urgency Can Save Your Workplace

How can companies reshape their space utilization to support rapidly evolving work modes? By designing agile workspaces that can pivot quickly. Savvy businesses are adopting a sense of design urgency that reframes their workplace as a strategic asset.

Facility Management KPI Examples

How setting KPI's can help promote and excel workplace success.

COVID-19 and Employee Fear on Returning to the Workplace

There are a lot of different opportunities for employers to quell fears about returning to the workplace. Here’s what companies can and should do to help mitigate coronavirus concerns as they welcome employees back to work.

Facility Management Software for Non-Profits

Three different ways nonprofits can use facility management software to further their mission, instead of overhead or loss to inefficiency.

An Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19...What Now?

Steps to take if an employee test positive for COVID-19.

Smart Building Sensors Today and in the Future

As smart building sensors become more commonplace in offices, the capabilities of these mechanisms will redefine how we interact with our workplaces.

COVID Leadership

Businesses face prolific and unprecedented challenges due to coronavirus. In the face of new and still unknown obstacles, the workplace needs leaders more than ever. Good leadership in the time of pandemic goes beyond the ability to channel pressure to results. Leaders need to forge ahead and offer support in ways they might not be familiar with.

Adjusting Workplace Strategies for a Post-COVID Future

As the business community prepares to reopen, its path remains fraught with perils we don’t understand, nor are prepared to face. Social distancing is defining a new workplace structure that may require a completely different work model based on remote employees, staggered shifts, and smaller footprints. But one thing is certain: we won’t go back to the way things were in January 2020.

A Brief History of Digital Workplace Technology

Here’s a look at a brief history of workplace technology. Though we could arguably go back to the 1950s and 60s, we’re starting in the 70s, with the introduction of the personal computer. Truly, this is the best place to understand the workplace of the future, from its humble beginnings.

The Best COVID-19 Workplace Design

Most companies structure their workplace concept around the type of work their employees do on a daily basis. Meetings and collaborative efforts need an open, free-flowing environment; head-down solo work warrants benching, pods, or hot desks. What most employers don’t consider when creating an office floor plan is the threat of a pandemic and the need for social distancing. Needless to say, a COVID-19 workplace design is likely different from your current one.

The Impact of Technology in the Workplace

Workplace technology is on an exponential curve. It wasn’t long ago we used fax machines and interoffice mail to work—now, even email seems outmoded. The impact of technology in the workplace is substantial and it’s changing everything from how we work to what tools we use to do our jobs.

Employer-Specific COVID-19 Workplace Face Mask Guidance

Employer face mask guidance should expand on the information provided by the CDC, while accounting for workplace-specific variables not mentioned in broad guidelines. Here’s a quick rundown of how to ensure employees understand and follow proper face mask guidelines at work.

Why Agile Companies Need Online Communication Tools

To stay fast on their feet, agile companies need to invest in online communication tools.

Five Essential Types of Team Communication Tools

Here’s a look at five essential types of team communication tools and some of the best options among them for teams, both in-house and decentralized.

COVID-19 Workplace HVAC Checklist

If COVID-19 can survive in an airborne capacity for any length of time, facilities managers face the arduous task of addressing recirculated airflow quality. Failure to institute HVAC safety measures could mean broad workplace exposure to the virus.