Month: January 2019

Avison Young’s acquisition of UK-based real estate advisory business GVA – announced originally last November has been completed. http://www.facilitatemagazine.com/news/gva-acquisition-results-in-global-avison-young-brand/ News from FM World

The facilities management profession’s demands are becoming more focused on specialised services, according to the Global Facilities Management Market Report. http://www.facilitatemagazine.com/news/report-points-to-eight-key-ways-to-strengthen-global-fm-market/ News from FM World

The UK is planning to invest up to £70 million in cybersecurity in a bid to eradicate some of the most damaging cyber threats facing businesses, says the government. http://www.facilitatemagazine.com/news/government-pledges-100m-for-cybersecurity-upgrades/ News from FM World

Over half of frontline workers who have ‘desk-less’ jobs say they use messaging apps up to six times a day for work-related communications, according to research by private enterprise social network Speakap. http://www.facilitatemagazine.com/news/frontline-workers-turn-to-unapproved-apps-for-work-related-messaging/ News from FM World

Access to financial education is one of several benefits being increasingly demanded of employers, according to a survey by global professional services firm Aon. http://www.facilitatemagazine.com/news/employees-financial-well-being-increasingly-seen-as-employerss-role/ News from FM World

Support services company ISS has said a union’s claim that the work conditions at a London hospital where the firm supplies services as belonging to the Victorian era is “complete nonsense”. http://www.facilitatemagazine.com/news/iss-slams-unions-claims-of-victorian-conditions-at-kingston-hospital/ News from FM World

Over half (52 per cent) of UK employees believe that their personal technology feels more modern and is more user-friendly than their workplace technology and a further 50 per cent wish that their workplace technology performed in a similar manner to their personal technology. http://www.facilitatemagazine.com/news/employees-want-workplace-tech-that-performs-like-their-own-technology/…

An early redundancy makes your health poorer, according to research by the Centre for Health Service Studies within the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at Kent. http://www.facilitatemagazine.com/news/early-career-lay-off-makes-health-poorer-say-academics/ News from FM World

The Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management launches its annual Pay and Prospects survey today. http://www.facilitatemagazine.com/news/iwfm-launches-its-pay-and-prospects-survey-2019/ News from FM World

The waste management and recycling industry is less than enthusiastic about its own success in making the digital transformation, according to waste and recycling software company AMCS’s Digital Transformation Barometer 2018. http://www.facilitatemagazine.com/news/most-waste-recycling-firms-are-failing-to-catch-up-with-digital-innovation/ News from FM World