Resourcing in the world of facilities management certainly comes with its challenges. Juggling timesheets through multiple staffing agencies and a substantial payroll is without doubt an administrative headache.
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The global facilities services group says it intends to increase organic growth to 4-6% per annum by accelerating its focus on key account customers.
Wellcome Trust, the health research foundation, has appointed Wilson James to deliver security, reception and logistics services at its central London headquarters.
Interserve has been awarded a £25m contract by Cwm Taf University Health Board, as part of the next phase of the £36m redevelopment of Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr.
Reporting by the Financial Times was behind a number of fresh stories over the weekend, focused on strategy at the construction to services group and its prospects for the future.
Hampshire-based IPM Facilities has secured a three-year, multi-site contract to deliver cleaning, grounds maintenance services and civil works.
CBRE Excellerate will merge CBRE's FM operations in Africa and the Middle East with some of Excellerate's businesses, including corporate real estate services, FM, valuation and project management services plus property management outside of South Africa.
A new report on the UK facilities management market suggests that outsourcing will grow by £2bn in 2019, with the market forecast to rise by more than £10bn by 2022.
The Institute of Physics has appointed Pareto FM to provide workplace services for their newly built headquarters in London's Caledonian Road.
The services group has won praise for the representation and presence of women at senior levels across the business.
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Gary Jones looks at how facilities management software can boost satisfaction levels and retain customers.
Over the past five years, new tech has drastically transformed the way B2B and B2C businesses operate. Ritam Gandhi looks at what’s available now and what's on the horizon.
Last week Mace Macro launched a new report analysing our work environments and uncovering a series of problems, along with associated opportunities for improvement. That set me thinking.
Carl Webb reviews the importance of considering whether a hired climate control arrangement makes more sense than a traditional purchase.
It's a common view in FM these days: we're on the brink of fundamental, widespread change in what we do and how we do it. The driver is clear: rapidly developing technology. But is this really the case?
He's proud of his big outsourcer background, Martyn Freeman tells Fiona Perrin; but he's back with a new version of FM.
It's time we looked at our workplaces through a new lens, Nicola Morris, Sodexo's Divisional MD for Corporate Services, tells Fiona Perrin.
Sodexo is committed to 'Quality of Life Services'. Keith Hamer, its Global VP of Engineering and Asset Management, tells Fiona Perrin why operating to a global standard for hard services is so integral to that vision.
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