The Midlands and Central England’s most outstanding workplaces have been announced with British Council for Offices (BCO) Awards going to five office buildings across the region. Held at the Eastside Rooms, Birmingham, on 8 May, a focus on people, place ...

The North’s most outstanding workplaces have been announced, with prestigious British Council for Offices (BCO) Awards going to six landmark office buildings across the region. Held on 6 May 2026 at Manchester’s Kimpton Clocktower, the BCO’s annual Northern Awards recognised projects ...

Businesses may be overlooking the long-term health of their workforce, despite increasing regulatory emphasis on occupational health risks and prevention, according to new data from employment law, HR and health and safety specialists WorkNest. The research found that while over ...

New research reveals workplace safety is now a business performance driver, but broadening operational pressures are making progress harder to sustain. As UK productivity plateaus, with output per hour worked down 0.5 per cent year-on-year, new research from EcoOnline, a ...

The Webinar, Meeting Compliance in a New Culture of Accountability from FMJ in partnership with Watco focused on the implications for FMs of the introduction of the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) which in January of this year formally separated from ...

More than a third (35 per cent) of HR and compliance professionals say managers in their organisation lack confidence when discussing reasonable adjustments for neurodivergent employees, with 30 per cent describing managers as “not very confident” and five per cent ...

London’s most outstanding workplaces have been named, with British Council for Offices (BCO) Awards recognising six outstanding workplace projects that demonstrate design excellence, meaningful sustainability and a strong focus on people and place. The BCO Regional Award winners for London ...

HubStar, an industry leader in dynamic workplace management technology, recently hosted the latest quarterly ‘Workplace Connect’ event in London. It brought together senior workplace leaders for in-depth discussions on the challenges, priorities and opportunities shaping the modern workplace. The attendees ...

The government is progressing on the Manchester Digital Campus (MDC) with the outline business case formally approved by the Treasury. Built on brownfield land in central Manchester, the campus will bring together approximately 8,800 people from multiple government departments with ...

From January 2026, the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) formally separated from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Created under the Building Safety Act 2022 in response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the BSR is designed to raise safety standards across ...