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Facilitate - Who do we think we are?
If I have a clear messagethis month, it’s that there can be times when clarity becomes fogged – because ‘wriggle room’ clouds it. The bimester* just passed has seen this sector’s famous adaptability to circumstance highlighted again, just as happened when the pandemic hit, and just as happens on a day-to-day basis.
Facilitate - Fitness for purpose
Print deadlines are rarely an editor’s friend, and that’s certainly the case as we respond to a sudden, ugly war in Ukraine likely to prove life changing for all of us in one way or another.
Facilitate - Bringing it into balance
Not much point my opening this year with a message about uncertainty, the continuing use of that ’U’ word being about the only certainty of 2022.
Facilitate - Making headway
So much for ‘normality’. As of October a majority of office workers remain non-office based, commuter train journeys at less than half their pre-pandemic levels.
Facilitate - Cultivating hybrid
One in three of these leader comments over the years has focused on some kind of emergent opportunity; a chance for this profession to step up and see through a transformative organisational change in response to legislative, technological or economic drivers.
Facilitate - Net zero sum games
One conversation I had as we prepared this edition focused on the impact of artificial intelligence now and in the near future.
Facilitate - Thought code
One key aspect of the pandemic has been a greater collective appreciation of communities and the roles we play in them.
Facilitate - AI invoked
A third of the UK’s population had been vaccinated at the time of writing, yet still the sense of an uncertain and nervous return to the workplace – offices, mostly – is all pervading.
Facilitate - Pause for thought
As we enter 2021, there can be little more certain than editors pointing out just how uncertain things are. In our pre post-pandemic, Brexit Ground Zero world, any quest to find fresh words to adequately convey this state of constant transition seems doomed to failure.
Facilitate - Brought to the fore
Amidst all the important yet increasingly circular discussion about the pandemic’s wider implications for the workplace - you can only take so much ‘whither the office?’
Facilitate - The end?
Deadlines and rescheduling meant that this year’s main IWFM conference sessions fell on our press day. Accordingly, commentary from that event will appear in our November edition,
Facilitate - Towards Net Zero Emissions
Six months ago, few bar a select group of evangelists would have predicted that so much typical office work could be achieved remotely.
Facilitate - Soft Focus
Pioneering mockumentary series The Office turns two decades old next year. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s original idea proved so successful that a slew of TV awards was soon followed by 10 global variants of the show, any number of copycat sitcoms and the mass adoption of the mockumentary format.
Facilitate - External Affairs
This is the third Facilitate to be produced entirely during lockdown. We’d just signed off on our April issue when the call came to go home, so while subsequent magazines have been posted out to us, only our readers have seen the April 2020 edition in print.
Facilitate - Spacing, Significant, Challenges
They say necessity is the mother of invention, and there’s no doubting the creative endeavour so many workplace and facilities managers have engaged in over recent weeks.
Facilitate - Another Level
Critical facilities staffed up within days; refits carried out to meet entirely new realities; the C-suite engaging on best quality of cleaning practice rather than price;
Facilitate - Logistical Thinking
Here it is, then. The single, unavoidable worldwide event that could finally be the tipping point for remote working among knowledgework businesses.
Facilitate - Constructive Arguments
At Workplace Futures last month VINCI’s Victoria Hughes spoke of how we’re living in an epoch known as the Anthropocene – because we humans now have most influence over climate and environment.
Facilitate - Acts of Rebellion and their Positive Outcomes
We often talk of the facilitating role of workplace and facilities management professionals. The variety of service provision ensures a uniquely expansive interdepartmental reach, and it’s in the very nature of the job that its practitioners are, at least when considered dispassionately, the obvious choice to take the lead in seeing corporate change projects through to completion.
Facilitate - Changing of the Guards
A new year, a new government and a new decade. That’s quite an unusual triumvirate, with perhaps that last item – our entry into the third decade of this 21st century – the one most likely to get us stopping a minute to take stock of this sector’s progress.