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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.
Facilitate - Changing the Equation
Three years ago we reported on the Stoddart Review’s ‘Workplace Advantage’ report, which focused on this profession’s direct connection to productivity enhancement.
Facilitate - Above and Beyond
Last month a life-sized human doll named Emma briefly made headlines. Emma was meant as the physical embodiment of an absurd future as suggested in an absurd story claiming we humans were set to evolve hunched backs, varicose veins and protruding stomachs unless established ways of office working weren’t put into reverse.
Facilitate - Critical Role
Discussions about the effect of automation on those who deliver facilities services – and those for whom these services are delivered – tends to accentuate the apocalyptic.
Facilitate - Well To Do
I was asked recently to check how many times I’d used the word ‘wellbeing’ in these Facilitate columns. Interestingly, it doesn’t appear prior to May 2014.
Facilitate - Bring It In? Keep It Out?
So the UK has a new prime minister grappling with an unquestionably febrile political landscape. Doubtless a ‘Boris Bounce’ will see us through to whatever horrors Halloween has in store, but it’s with this political fragility in mind that we should consider the Labour Party’s report, ‘Democratising Local Services – a Plan for Twenty-First Century Insourcing’.
Facilitate - All New Formulas
Sometimes, amid the constant chatter that accompanies the production of Facilitate, an important signal rises above the noise. In this case it’s a sense of an increasingly common purpose between client and provider, or organisation and FM department; a feeling that we are, perhaps, seeing their aims more closely aligned than ever before.