How Can We Encourage More Women into Leadership Positions in the FM Industry?
In the FM industry, the further up the employment chain you look - the less women that occupy key roles. This is something we see industry wide, with some reports stating that just 3 - 4% of CEOs...
Why Market Networks are the Future of HVAC
Not to be confused with network marketing, market networks are an emerging type of business model aiming to make working life fairer and easier for everybody. By mobilising business communications...
Approaching Digital Integration in the Workplace
Tech is now a fully embedded element of every office - from the advent of the photocopier, the office environment had been fully changed into an evolving technological arena. In June 1975 Business...
Peak Performance at Work: Stay Hydrated!
Athletes and sportsmen have known for some time that hydration is important to success. It’s not just because it makes the body’s physical systems work better, but because below a certain level of...
Janus-Faced Management: Looking to the Past and Future
2017 has been quite a year. Not just for Servest but for the industry as a whole. The dynamics of facilities management have subtly adjusted. There’s now much more pressure on FM service providers to...
Effective Supply Chain Partnering
Stephen Henagulph, Screwfix Business to Business Manager, believes there is scope for closer and longer-term working agreements between facility managers, procurement teams and key suppliers to...
The DNA of the Perfect FM Leader
t is widely accepted that Facilities Managers must be multi-skilled in order to execute their work. But how can FM leaders adapt to their ever changing environment? The DNA of a perfect FM leader is...
Tech Trends: An Overview
Workplace technology is changing faster than at any time in the history of facilities management and maintenance. To truly appreciate and benefit from the business advantages that advances in...
The Changing Perception of Contract Catering
Catering providers have been on a silent mission to reshape the industry and inspire workplaces across the country for many years. With ‘health and wellbeing’ no longer viewed as a buzz-term, instead...
Scheduling Software Users Award Fast Lean Smart UK a Net Promoter Score of 100
FLS, Fast Lean Smart, a leader in field force appointment, schedule and route optimisation solutions, is pleased to announce the results of its annual customer satisfaction survey in the UK. Jeremy...
3 Ways to Make the Most of Exhibiting at Facilities Show
fter many months of preparation, the world’s largest dedicated FM event, Facilities Show can go by in a flash. Ceris Burns, Managing Director of specialist PR agency for the built environment, Ceris...
Ways to Mitigate Unconscious Bias
It’s unlikely that anyone would ever dispute that all human beings deserve the same rights and respect – regardless of whether they’re male, female, black, white, heterosexual, homosexual, or whether...
