Category: Workplace

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Audits: How to Inspect the Uninspected

Learn how automated audits help FMs improve compliance, cut costs, and maintain high standards across sites.
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Is Poor Air Quality Stifling Your Workplace?

We outline the importance of maintaining indoor air quality to achieve health, productivity, and cost-efficiency benefits.
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30 Years of FM and SWG

Celebrating our 30th birthday, we look back over the last three decades of our history and the evolution of the FM landscape.
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Health and Mental Wellbeing in the Workplace

FMs should prioritise employee wellbeing by cultivating positive workplace cultures & utilising FM software to improve physical environments.
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Do You Need to be a Data Whizz to Get The Most From Your CAFM?

Using integrated business intelligence software, like Power BI, can make it easier to access, analyse and collect FM data.
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Can You Afford to Be Wasting Space?

Our latest blog highlights the significance of understanding space utilisation and the strategies that optimise space management.
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Building a Sustainable Future: How FM Can Lead the Way

This blog creates a blueprint for improving sustainability in the FM sector, exploring how to identify and action sustainable business goals.
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2023: A Year in Workplace Tech

We reflect on 2023 - a year of workplace focused technology including AI, the Metaverse, retrofitting with BIM and Digital Twins.
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Adapting to Flexible Working

Learn about the new UK Flexible Working Bill and its many implications for the Facilities Management sector.
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Overcoming Challenges for FMs in the Public Sector

Learn more about how the challenges facilities managers face within the public sector can be eased with innovative technologies.
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5 Top Tips for Better Maintenance

Our latest blog reveals 5 top tips and essential strategies to enhance asset performance, minimise downtime, and boost productivity.
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Reinventing the Workplace: Neurodiversity and FM

Learn about the 'reinvention of the workplace,' a movement to accommodate hybrid working and neurodiversity
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2022 in Review – What Were the Priorities in FM?

As the year draws to a close, we’re taking a look back at what aspects of facilities management most interested those in the sector over the last 12 months.
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Smart Buildings and Integration

SWG experts explored the opportunities for specialised FM software to optimise building performance at the Smart Buildings Show.
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Creating Smarter Spaces

Whether your workspace is expanding or decreasing, decisions around change must be based on hard data. Read how companies are using space management software to assist.
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The Evolution of an Industry – 10 Years of FM Surveys

Take a look back over how technology in FM has changed over 10 years, then take part in our new industry survey with FMJ.
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How Lockers Are The Key To Hybrid Workplaces

COVID-safe businesses inviting back employees are likely to enforce a clear desk policy - making lockers essential kit to keep the workplace organised.
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A Hybrid Office for an Evolving Workforce

Hybrid working models can protect businesses and employees from disruption through homeworking options and also providing a clean, functional, COVID-safe workspace.
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Rebuilding the Workplace Community

Working from home is not suitable for everyone, and the role of FM is pivotal in preparing offices for safe use and welcoming back the workforce.
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Predicting Future Workspace Requirements

COVID-19 has changed the normal working environment, and businesses need to plan for a future with more remote working and identify changing space requirements.
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Light CAFM for Rich Facilities Management

As lockdown begins to ease and some employees head back to the office, pressure to maintain a safe, hygienic and fully functional space is as never before.
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Managing Site-Wide Health and Safety with CAFM

How creating schedules by location, rather than asset, can help FMs manage health and safety across their site.
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2019 in Review – What Were the Priorities in FM?

New Year is a time of reflection, and we’re looking back on the priorities for facilities management professionals over the last 12 months.
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Technology: Are FMs Embracing Change?

‘Technology as a force for change – we are all technology companies, aren’t we?’ A commentary on the debate featuring SWG.
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Give Up Giving Up – FM Practices to Let Go

Giving up smoking for a month is good for self-control and health, but why not also consider giving up bad FM practices to form positive habits instead.
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Using CAFM to Combat Energy Waste

How using CAFM can help the FM team identify energy saving strategies in order to reduce expenditure and greenhouse gas emissions.
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5 Ways to Achieve a Better Work-Life Balance

A growing 24/7 work culture leaves FMs open to being ‘always on' so leveraging technology like CAFM is essential to keep work in check and facilities running efficiently.
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2018 in Review – What Were the Key Priorities in FM?

Looking back on 2018, what topics were of most interest to FM professionals? Read our round up here.
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Checking Out the Workplace

The importance of first impressions cannot be underestimated and a reception is the window to a business. How can FM software help improve public spaces?
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FM Automation Made Simple

While there are many perceived barriers to the automation, it is within the reach of FMs and can provide significant organisational change.
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The Unsung Heroes of Education

Lighting and green space are proven factors in motivation, leading to better academic performance. How can the hard work of the estates team be made easier?
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Is Budget Limiting Tech in FM?

While some early adopters are certainly reaping the benefits of sensors and robotics, there are hurdles to overcome before these become widespread.
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What is Static Space Costing Your Business?

Recent reports of noise being the number one bugbear of office workers are rife. What can be done to resolve a difficult situation and maintain productivity?
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QFM User Group Summary

A look at the QFM User Group held in London last week, including guest client speakers from Luton & Dunstable NHS Trust and Anabas.
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2017 in Review – What Were the Key Priorities in FM?

2017 was a year of change and discovery for facilities management, but which subjects were most important to FMs?
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Living Wage Week

The Living Wage provides fair pay for a fair day’s work, and is a voluntary rate higher than minimum wage. More employers are now signing up to this scheme after seeing the benefits to productivity.
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The Art of Customer Satisfaction

With the right technology in place, satisfaction can not only be gained but also measured and analysed in order to increase its occurrence in the future.
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The Importance of FM in Event Planning

The facilities management team is the backbone of any event, and requests can be made and managed quickly and easily through CAFM software.
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Productivity – the Workplace Challenge

43% of employees do not agree that their workplace allows them to work productively. What can facilities management team do to improve productivity?
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Demystifying Performance Based Contracts

Put simply, performance based contracts provide incentives and disincentives to achieve desired outcomes or results from contractors, with the aim of reducing costs and improving service levels.
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How is FM Technology Keeping Your Workplace Well?

Workplace wellness is currently high on the FM agenda, with many organisations now increasing their investment in the health and wellbeing of employees.
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Is Science the Future of Service?

As artificial intelligence becomes commonplace in FM, we look how it is being used now and how the cost of this tech can be made achievable.
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Is Science the Future of Service?

As artificial intelligence becomes commonplace in FM, we look how it is being used now and how the cost of this tech can be made achievable.
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ThinkFM 2017 – Is Facilities Management Ready for IoT?

Today’s FM customer has become more demanding, less patient and more technology-savvy - and it is FM’s responsibility to lead workplace change.
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Enabling Positive Experiences

This year's World FM Day celebrates facilities management with the theme of 'enabling positive experiences', boosting the profession's status across the globe.
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What is Self-Service?

Self-Service - how mobile devices, public computers and kiosks can be easily implemented for effective FM and improved customer experience.
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Managing the Workplace Inside and Out

Workplace is high on the facilities management agenda, but what about outside of the building? SWG looks at nanotechnology developments in building materials and battery life.
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The Future Workplace – Sensors and IoT

The Internet of Things will revolutionise the FM industry, and SWG looks at how sensors and location-based technology can be used to do this.
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How Smart Technology is Affecting Facilities Management

2017 will be a big year for smart technology in facilities management, powered by the rise of connectivity through the Internet of Things, or IoT.
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Facilities Management Made As Easy As Pie

Many parallels can be drawn between The Great British Bake Off and facilities management - read on to find out more.
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How to Choose and Implement the Right FM Software for Your Organisation

The importance of careful planning cannot be emphasised strongly enough when choosing new facilities management software. SWG has produced a comprehensive, impartial guide to provide advice.
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Help Desk Self-Service – The Key to FM Productivity?

Reduce your help desk's paperwork and improve its efficiency with QFM self-service FM software.
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Making Sense of CAFM

What is CAFM? Read on to see what CAFM software does, and how it can benefit the facilities management in your business.
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