Multinational professional services network KPMG UK has launched a ‘four-day fortnight’ as part of a package of measures designed to offer greater flexibility, choice and support to its workers.
Meeting the government’s new carbon emissions target will need an "unprecedented surge in training and recruitment across the building services sector", according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).
The Sue Ryder charity is one of the first healthcare providers in England to appoint the recently launched NHS Deep Cleaning and Advisory Service to meet the new official cleaning standard.
While the global pandemic has thrown up questions about the future of offices and workspaces, it’s also placed the importance of future-proofing workforces into sharp relief.
This week the Security Industry Authority (SIA) is launching a public consultation on top-up training for SIA-licensed door supervisors and security guards.
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has called for a redoubling of efforts to improve the diversity in engineering workforces to aid the UK’s economic recovery.
Empathy, emotional intelligence and other soft skills have become vital in how workplace and facilities managers deal with the needs of their teams and their end-users during the Covid-19 crisis, with uncertainty bringing these skills into sharp focus. Bradford Keen reports
An understanding and appreciation of others’ perspectives, be they peers or subordinates, makes for the broadening gamut of skills required to be an effective workplace and facilities manager. Bradford Keen talks to sector specialists about the personal professional development and training necessary to ensure truly empathetic facilities service management.
The Covid-19 crisis exacerbated the existing skills gap in the building services sector, but also created new opportunities and accelerated potential solutions, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).
Organisations should provide empathetic training and educational tools to battle discrimination and support diversity, a IWFM webinar audience heard this week.
The dissertation of a student of facilities management at Sheffield Hallam University reveals that the profile of a ‘typical FM’ remains largely unchanged since 1999: a 45-year-old white man who fell into the profession.
