Smart Workplace

No matter how skilled you may be in the fine art of facilities management, you may find yourself needing a little help to effectively manage space. The facility manager’s job has become so broad that a majority of companies now employ people to assist with FM duties. While you, as the manager, are unquestionably in charge […]

Facilities managers looking to manage large offices have a lot of logistics to juggle. With each employee, there are a number of questions to be answered – where will they sit? What equipment will they need? Who will they collaborate with, and where?

It’s difficult to recommend one particular space management strategy that will work for all facilities managers in all offices. Let’s face it: Every workplace is different. You may have general principles about how to align your buildings, who sits where and how the locations of different departments play off of each other, but generalities will

Especially with a sizable company that operates out of a large office building, moving into a new facility can be quite daunting. Relocating takes a lot of time, effort and money, and your business might not have all of those things to spare. If you’re a facilities manager with a big project on your plate,

When you’re running a small or mid-sized company and operating within a modest-sized office building, it can be a little tricky to manage space. The employees within your four walls have countless requests – open spaces, quiet spaces, rooms to read, rooms to talk, places to work hard, places to take a break. It can

For folks who work tirelessly every day to manage space, it can sometimes be difficult to gauge their progress and find out exactly how successful their facilities management endeavors have been. Are they using rooms effectively? Are their office and desk layouts conducive to a productive workforce? Are they doling out resources properly so that

For facilities managers whose companies and their staffs are becoming increasingly mobile, matters of space management are beginning to get tricky. It’s no longer prudent for each employee to have his or her own desk. It’s not that simple anymore – some people work from home part of the time, some are frequently traveling and lots

For facilities managers who are asked to manage space, it can be difficult to make the most of every room in their offices. Office buildings are like budgets – just as financial managers look to squeeze value out of every single dollar they have at their disposal, facilities managers must similarly look to extract utility

For workers at many companies across a variety of industries, their productivity depends on how conducive their workspaces are to getting work done. Different employees have different preferences when it comes to their offices – some like open spaces that promote collaboration, whereas others prefer to be closed off where they can work an environment