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Annual Review 2024
2024 was a decisive year for the Institute with significant progress in the second year of our strategy.
Market Outlook Survey Report 2025
Amid global economic uncertainty, IWFM’s 2025 Market Outlook Survey reports good news for the workplace and facilities management (WFM) sector, following last year’s call to "keep investing."
Sustainability Survey Report 2024
IWFM is proud to release the Sustainability Survey Report 2024. The survey results contained in this report come from IWFM’s Sustainability Survey 2024. This annual survey was in-field between July and September 2024 and received a total of 537 responses.
Annual Review 2023
In 2023, the Institute entered its fourth decade IWFM embarked on a three-year strategic plan focused on growth and our strongest offering yet for members.
Market Outlook Survey Report 2024
The latest edition of our annual market report draws on a record number of survey responses and builds on recent progress to provide even more insights.
Optimising productivity in a post-pandemic hybrid world
Post-pandemic, we all look at work and the working world through new lenses. Work and its location are no longer seen as the same thing, nor is it fixed to any one space.
Sustainability Survey 2023
IWFM is proud to release the Sustainability Survey Report 2023, based on the insight of 620 workplace and facilities management (WFM) surveyed last year. The comprehensive report finds that the sector’s professionals are insufficiently involved in organisations’ plans around energy efficiency and carbon reduction, suggesting that plans are flawed from their inception.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) 2023 governance and leadership survey findings
The IWFM is pleased to release our leadership and governance survey results for the second year running with some encouraging signs of progress in our diversity.
30 years back, 3 trends for the future
The Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) has marked the 30th anniversary of its founding with the release of new research, ’30 years back, 3 trends for the future’. Developed with sector experts, the work traces the progress of workplace and facilities management (WFM) from the evolution of offices to the rise of digital innovation, changing workspace objectives to a focus on sustainability and employee experience.
Making the Invisible, visible: how better air quality supports productivity and sustainability outcomes
Since the pandemic, indoor air quality has come to the fore of the public’s mind, yet in the hierarchy of management, it still appears to take a backseat. To examine the factors which may help or hinder the conversation around indoor air quality (IAQ), the IWFM invited leaders from the FM world to a roundtable discussion in London in May.
The role of FM and building services in achieving net zero and energy efficiency
Developed in partnership with Mitsubishi Electric, this report offers expert insights and practical tips on tackling net zero by changing approaches to energy efficiency and challenging traditional thinking on costs and returns.
Annual Review 2022
After two years of navigating and supporting members through the many impacts of COVID-19, 2022 was a pivotal and transformative year for IWFM as we applied our learnings to re-imagine what a modern, sustainable, progressive, and value-adding professional body should look like in the post-pandemic era.
Market Outlook survey report 2023
Gain vital insights into the performance of the FM sector, understand its key challenges, and learn tips on how to overcome them in the IWFM Market Outlook 2023 survey report, available now exclusively for IWFM members.
Sustainability Survey 2022
Welcome to the fifteenth IWFM Sustainability Survey Summary Report. Thank you to everybody who participated in this work. Your input is invaluable and ensures our survey remains a key evaluation of sustainability and workplace trends.
Navigating a changing energy landscape in the transition to net zero
Transitioning to net zero poses huge challenges to governments and businesses. With energy costs rising alongside many other supply-side problems, and a cost-of-living crisis engulfing the UK,
The future of office design
The IWFM’s recent roundtable discussion in partnership with MillerKnoll, on the future role of the office and how it is designed, spotlighted the many possibilities for personal and corporate growth and development offered by new, more flexible working arrangements.
Annual Review 2021
While 2020’s economic shutdown spared no organisation, the Institute made a modest recovery in 2021 as things opened up again. Most encouraging is that more of you stayed with us, more of you joined us at professional grades, and more of you made progress on your professional journeys with us. It was another packed year, and it is down to the continued support of our members and volunteers - whose vital contributions permeate this document – that there has been much to celebrate in challenging times.
The smart places ecosystem forum
Smart cities draw on digital technology and data to provide real-time information which makes life easier and more productive for their inhabitants. Though still in the early days of development, smart cities hold out the prospect of delivering highly efficient, sustainable and streamlined ways of living and working.
Hybrid working and the challenges of the modern workplace
As a Workplace Management Solution company that help to manage the build environment, we always thrive to learn about our customers, industries, and challenges the FM space and the workplace is facing. Therefore, we are appreciative to have had the opportunity to host the roundtable with industry expert professionals in the field.
The workplace now and in the future
As part of our ongoing partnership, IWFM and Ricoh carried out this research about the future of work in a hybrid landscape, including digitalisation as well as cybersecurity.