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Facilitate magazine

Overview

We may need to revisit a well-established if unflattering perception of the workplace and facilities management role, because it might just turn out to herald the further evolution of the profession. We know that, historically, this profession’s practitioners are all too easily bracketed as ‘Jills of all Trades’ – that is, not specialism experts in a single technical discipline but professionally commissioncompetent across a spectrum. Unfortunately, ‘Jill of all Trades’ can be seen as a pejorative term. Sure, it comes with certain positive connotations, evoking such plucky FM virtues as mucking in, making things happen, plugging gaps; but it nevertheless invites the insinuation that, well, “master of none” and all that...