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Goal Reach full effectiveness sooner after stepping into a new role by treating local familiarity as the work itself, not as something that accumulates on its own. Nano Tool We tend to assume skills are portable: hire a strong performer, or move into a bigger job yourself, and the results should follow. The evidence says…

Most senior business leaders expect artificial intelligence to lead to workforce growth and job redesign rather than widespread redundancies, according to new global research from commercial real estate firm JLL. The company’s 2026 Future of Work Survey, based on responses from more than 2,200 C-suite executives and corporate real estate leaders across 21 countries, found…

Organisations that encourage stronger inter-generational collaboration between different groups of employees are more likely to see improvements in innovation, trust and business performance, according to new research from employee recognition firm O.C. Tanner. The company’s first State of Generations at Work Report, based on responses from more than 5,700 employees across 17 countries, argues that…

Ask a facilities manager what they do, and the honest answer in 2026 sounds less like building operations and more like air traffic control. A typical morning means lining up an HVAC contractor, chasing a quote that was promised last week, approving an invoice, fielding a tenant complaint about a meeting room, confirming a fire…

Hospitals and other healthcare facilities rely on much more than doctors and nurses to keep patients safe. In this episode of Facilities in Focus, Mackenna Moralez sits down with Yanet Vega of El Rio Health to discuss how safety standards and compliance challenges keep hospitals running safely. Throughout the episode, Yanet explains how compliance goes…

Most facilities teams have quietly reached the same conclusion: a staffed workplace canteen costs too much to justify, so it’s a snack machine or nothing. They’re half right. The canteen isn’t the problem — the model is. And the model has changed. Ask a facilities manager what their canteen actually costs, and you’ll rarely get…