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Facilitate - A portrait of progress
Welcome to the November/December 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - 30 years advancing the profession
Welcome to the September/October 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - Access = success
Welcome to the July/August 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - 2030 fortitude
Welcome to the May/June 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - conversion equations
Welcome to the March/April 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - fixing the focus
Welcome to the January/February 2023 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - badge of honour
Welcome to the November/December 2022 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - out of focus
Welcome to the September/October 2022 digital edition of Facilitate, which can be viewed online or downloaded to read offline.
Facilitate - Star players
While a brief and enjoyable detour back to 2012 has informed one of our features for this edition, back in the present a period of serious uncertainty is setting in. Inflation is always a horribly pernicious phenomenon, but the pricing of facilities service provision has evolved over decades without the kind of price surge we’re currently seeing.
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,