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Office Hoteling: The Solution for Today’s Workplace
New types of work environments are emerging to address major changes in the workplace. Advanced technologies, social issues and heightened concern for the bottom line are changing the status quo of the… [read more] |
How to Make Your Software Switch
Stress-Free
Facility scheduling software—for well-run facilities it has become a mission-critical application. With any luck, your organization has found the right system and will stick with it long term. However, it’s not uncommon… [read more] |
I Can't Help It,
I was Born this Way
One of my closest friends in high school took classes after graduating at a local junior college—her favorite subject was calculus. Marty didn’t need calculus for her work, but she took Calculus I, and then Calculus II, and... [read more] |
To Stay or Not to Stay...
It was 2005 and AbelsonTaylor was at the top of its game. An ad agency focused on the pharmaceutical industry, AbelsonTaylor had been recognized as the most creative agency in its industry for ten years running… [read more] |
Beyond Disaster Recovery
Every business should have a disaster contingency plan in place, starting with your information technology systems. We all know the flow of digital information is essential to modern business practices. This is… [read more] |
Bridging the Generation Gap
Multiple generations are currently working side by side in today’s offices—generations raised under situations as different as the Cold War and the Gulf War, the TV era and the Wii era. Should you ever doubt the… [read more] |
Green Cleaning Hits a Homerun
When baseball fans visit ballparks across America this season, the outfield grass won’t be the only green they see as part of their game day experience. In March, Major League Baseball announced a partnership with… [read more] |
Improving Environmental Conditions in the Workplace
Sustainability has been embraced by nearly every industry—from retail to energy, automotive to professional services, health care to higher education. Facility managers worldwide are challenged… [read more] |
Don’t Let Pests Bug Your Business: Green Initiatives in Pest Management
In recent years the term green has become synonymous with local, national and global efforts to protect the planet from environmental degradation. Today the reality is that green philosophies are becoming… [read more] |
Preserve History with the Right HVAC System
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems for archival room storage typically aren’t sustainable. Past designers of these critical environments have been more concerned with maintaining… [read more] |
FM Spotlight: Brazil
It all began in New Orleans, La., at IFMA’s World Workplace 2007 Conference & Expo. Little did I know that my meeting with Gessé Camargo—director for Interface Facilities Management and president… [read more] |
Do You Flush by Foot?
Bart Friedman is a 32-year-old retail developer in Chicago. He, his wife and their two children seem to be constantly coming down with colds. To try to stop the colds, he recently placed a bottle of hand sanitizer on… [read more] |
Easing the Strain of Transition
Relocations and temporary assignments are on the rise. The relocation industry—traditionally built around the needs of homebuyers and the provision of many services through real estate agents—is in the midst of an… [read more] |
Welcome to the Wiki Workspace
What do the Pat Metheny group and a Jackson Pollack painting have in common with the new workplace of the future? According to Don Tapscott, author and business innovator, leadership will be concerned with… [read more] |
| July/August World Workplace 2008 Pullout |
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| Portrait photography (cover and page 2) provided by Man Ha Photography. |
