COVID-19 could also introduce a new workplace trend: “the liquid workplace.” Tech giant Dropbox already embraces this new model.

IoT platforms that use overhead sensors, booking data, and smartphone space-reservations to pull analytics, are increasingly playing a key role in supporting the growing data-driven workplace.

FM leaders reveal the obstacles they overcame to attain their higher-level positions and how future professionals can follow suit.ƒƒ

Facility managers require resources to accomplish tasks, but other departments within the organization need the same and limited resources.

Working from home can create a struggle to disconnect from work when the day is done and to find balance.

The Royal Bank Plaza is now looking to entice a new generation of tenants—small- to medium-sized tech companies.

Ultimately, the hybrid office will have at its heart a planning principle based on people rotating in and out of the office, with flexible schedules they have more control over than ever.

Facility owners and managers must rethink the demands of existing operations and systems to deal with rapidly fluctuating capacity.

Beyond stores selling essential goods, bricks-and-mortar retail is reeling from COVID-19-triggered public health controls and watching its already gaining competition grow even faster than projected.

Increased cleaning frequencies and heavy waste removal due to the use of more disposable commodities means the bodies of essential workers are taking a beating.

In their 2019 Workplace Empathy survey, technology firm Businessolver discovered that 82 per cent of employees would consider leaving their job for a more empathetic organization,

Retrofits to remedy energy losses through the building envelope are sometimes based on assumptions and uncertainty.

It is critical that FMs be part of a back-to-work strategy to voice their ideas, suggestions and areas for improvement that can all be applied going forward.

Facility management affects a significant component of total lifetime embodied carbon.

After many conversations and much planning, the agency has recently started allowing employees to come back into the workplace.

The zero carbon project marks an evolution in warehouses and, more broadly, the potential for a lower-emitting industrial sector.

Black leaders are mostly absent from Canadian boards of directors, according to a new report from Ryerson University's Diversity Institute.