i-FM: The online resource for facilities management professionals

The recent plight of Facilities Management Journal (its publisher, until late last week, is in liquidation) illustrates what a tough marketplace it is for traditional publishing.

There has been a shift in the perceived requirements landscape for career-building in FM. There’s no longer a question mark over qualifications. FMs need both.

Mark Purnell wonders if his company should join the Facilities Management Association, and decides the answer is no.

Our latest Business Confidence Survey finds facilities managers equally split on whether current market conditions are 'average' or 'uncertain'.

Sodexo's 2013 Workplace Trends Report identifies a dozen issues impacting organisations where volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity are part of the 'new normal'.

Flexible working has long been a hot topic amongst industry folk, but the recent announcement from Yahoo! made the issue a national discussion point yet again.

Walk into many workplaces and the shared space can resemble more of a high street than an office environment.

With over a million young people not in employment, education or training, there is no doubt this issue needs to be addressed urgently; and FM is part of the answer.

What can that uniquely British product, the Jaffa cake, teach us about FM?

The facilities sector has developed a much more 'modern' approach to marketing over the last five years. But it has not kept pace with strategic marketing development in other industries, or even in closely related sectors.

It's good to know what your place is in the universe: it makes planning the future so much easier.

The way that most organisations procure M&E maintenance solutions is fundamentally flawed.