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Home and office comforts

Sam Rylands, Head of Marketing at Durable UK, explains why FMs need to combine the advantages of working at home and in the office to enhance employee wellbeing One of the biggest issues currently faced by managers of facilities, is ...

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Ergonomics in the workplace

Working from home is part of the new norm. DURABLE offers solutions for efficient and ergonomic workstations to ensure your employees are set up for home working efficiently. It takes more than just a laptop to create a home office, ...

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IWFM warns of worker welfare on 2022’s first day ‘not back in office’

For many employees, today is the first working day of 2022 but due to ongoing working from home restrictions the majority will not be attending their usual workplaces. According to the latest research from the Institute of Workplace and Facilities ...

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Home advantage

While workers are beginning to go back to the office, a significant number of knowledge workers are still primarily home based. A trend paper from DURABLE, ‘Working in small spaces’ provides some practical solutions When FMJ covered research by Durable ...

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FM Clinic: Employer responsibilities for homeworkers’ health and ergonomic wellbeing

News reports suggest that Working from bed (WFB) has grown in popularity since the start of the pandemic. What are employers’ responsibilities to ensure home based staff observe safe, ergonomic working habits to protect their health and reduce the chances ...

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Ergonomic solutions for home working

Home working is not yet a thing of the past. As restrictions lift but the message still clearly ‘work from home if you can’, DURABLE offer solutions for efficient and ergonomic workstations to ensure your staff are set up for ...

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The home train

Richard Anderson, Head of Learning and Development at High Speed Training , on how to promote positive mental health amongst their workforce by training them to adapt to their home working environment As a result of COVID-19 and the lockdown ...

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Rule of six

James McGill, Vice President, Customer Success at HireVue describes the six competencies to look for when hiring ‘work from home’ (WFH) team members Working from home isn’t a new concept, in fact before the pandemic changed how we view the ...

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Are you equipped for flexible working?

If the past few months have shown us anything, it’s that flexible working from home is possible (albeit with a few technical failures to keep us entertained!). Whilst many had set up temporary desk spaces when lockdown started, are you ...

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Home working lessons for FMs

Blog from Tim Oldman, Founder and CEO, Leesman How ironic. Facilities management spent years distancing itself from cleaning and janitorial services, casting these out as undervalued, commoditised and margin-less activities, in favour of the sparkly lights of workplace management. Then, ...

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