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Feeling Good In the Workplace Boosts Company Performance
Does your company need a Chief Happiness Officer? Nearly 90% of workers think it's a good idea, according to a new report on the workplace from JLL.
Five Ways To Improve Workplace Through Space Management
Deploy intelligent (and dynamic) space planning strategies through the use of technology, coupled with other sources of insight into how employees work.
FM Alert: Work Environments eBook Available
New eBook from AgilQuest provides a step-by-step guide to modern workplace solutions.
International WELL Building Institute Launches WELL Portfolio
The streamlined certification pathway for multiple existing buildings will leverage efficiencies and drive health and wellness improvements across portfolios.
7 Tips For Maximizing Productivity In An Open Office
Keeping an open office productive, orderly, and comfortable can be a challenge. Learn how you can make sure the open office idea works for your organization.
Boston’s Constitution Center Transforming Into Creative Workspace
Shoes.com will relocate its headquarters to 31,000 square feet of customized open workspace within the revamped waterfront facility, renamed Constitution Wharf.
Top 25 Cities For Sustainable Workplaces
In recognition of 2017 World FM Day, Sodexo has ranked the top metropolitan areas for sustainable workplaces—Washington, DC, San Jose, San Francisco, Denver, and Seattle top the list.
Streamlined Is Smarter For Some Workplace Tech
Proper infrastructure to support current and future technologies throughout a workplace is at the crux of delivering on occupant needs.
Building Safety Month Week 3: Manage The Damage — Preparing For Natural Disasters
Proper planning can help prevent many “what ifs,” as well as help save lives and get your business back on track quicker following a natural disaster.
Myriad By Boss Design
This modular furniture collection provides facility planners with tools they need to accommodate many work styles.
Prepare Your Facility To Beat The Summer Heat
HVAC technologies can result in reduced energy costs and higher occupant satisfaction during summer's peak demand days.
Building Safety Month Week 2: Building Design Solutions For All Ages
As Baby Boomers prepare to retire—will the built environment be ready for them?
Beyond The Red Dots: Creating Space That Works
In analyzing workplace performance data, facility executives may not want to focus primarily on how many seats are occupied — but rather on why some are not.
Terralux Is Now Sielo, Introduces LEDSENSE IoT Platform
With its new name, this provider of LED lighting solutions launches a cloud-based offering that leverages existing facility infrastructure to link power, light, and data systems.
BYOD Is Picking Up Steam: Is Your Facility Ready?
With 85% of businesses forecasted to support BYOD by 2020, here’s a look at what's needed in the wireless network toolbox to power enterprise mobility.
NYC Office Reflects Company Culture In Open Plan
Intent Media called on interior design firm JIDK to transform a segmented space into a functional and fun open office.
Trimble Mixed-Reality Pilot Program With Brookfield GIS
This mixed reality program, the world's first for property and facilities management, explores solutions for workplaces of the future.
Delos, Naava Team Up To Bring Smart Green Wall Technology To U.S.
Partnership will promote smart green wall technology to address human health and wellness within the built environment.
Enterprise-owned Data Centers Still The Norm
Many enterprises are moving some applications to the cloud, but the vast majority of IT workloads are hosted in company-owned and colocation data centers, according to a new Uptime Institute survey.
Firm Breathes New Life Into Old Tannery Building
Life sciences company Red Nucleus has moved into a newly redesigned space for its U.S. headquarters.
SC Johnson Last Operating Corporate HQ Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright
The Racine, WI company has reintroduced free public tours of its historic Administration Building and Research Tower, designed by the renowned architect.
Sky Factory’s Open Sky Compositions Study Earns Award
The neural study on Sky Factory’s Open Sky Compositions has earned EDRA’s Certificate of Research Excellence.
Clorox® Total 360™ System
The Clorox® Total 360™ Electrostatic Sprayer provides superior surface coverage so commercial facilities can do much more, much faster, for much less.
Friday Funny: Companies Align Against The Mobile Office
From paper clip providers and break room suppliers to desktop tchotchke manufacturers, companies adversely impacted by the rise of the “free range” office are joining forces to protest the trend.
Eyewear Innovation Lab Design Reflects Core Mission
For its new Manhattan location, VSP Global tasked its architecture firm to create a workplace that will inspire its team of creative entrepreneurs.
Leveraging Outdoor Space To Support Organizational Goals
Intentional design of outdoor spaces provides multiple benefits that can effectively support the organization and the people it employs and serves.
iOFFICE Introduces Space Desktop
This provider of "people-centric" IWMS software enables facility management and other stakeholders to view real estate portfolios in a map view.
New York City Celebrates First WELL Certified Project
Structure Tone’s new office in Manhattan achieves WELL Certification at the Silver Level; marks first WELL Certified Project in New York.
Amazon Launches Global Solar Energy Initiative
Amazon will install solar systems on 50 fulfillment facility rooftops worldwide by 2020; 15 solar installations planned for completion by the end of 2017 will generate up to 41 MW.
Eye Protection Can Prevent 90 Percent Of Work-Related Eye Injuries
Each day, about 2,000 U.S. workers sustain a job-related eye injury that requires medical treatment, but 90 percent of these accidents could be avoided by wearing eye protection.
Western Reserve Hospital Deploys Germ-Zapping Robot
The robot, nicknamed “Violet” by hospital employees, enhances patient safety by destroying superbugs that can cause infections.
The Impact Of Flooring On Nurse Wellness
More comfortable, ergonomic flooring material can improve productivity and patient quality of care, reduce absenteeism and workman comp claims, and lead to an overall improvement in quality of life for dedicated healthcare providers.
Smarter Facility Management With Smart ID Badging
Smartphones and mobile apps are enabling facilities to reduce and, in some cases, eliminate the use of physical access cards for building security.
Insulation: Mineral Wool Or Polyiso?
Choosing the ideal roofing insulation material for a facility project depends on several factors.
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