Empathy, emotional intelligence and other soft skills have become vital in how workplace and facilities managers deal with the needs of their teams and their end-users during the Covid-19 crisis, with uncertainty bringing these skills into sharp focus. Bradford Keen re...

The profile of a ‘typical FM’ – a 45-year-old man having fallen into the profession – has remained largely unchanged since 1999, a recent IWFM webinar audience heard. During the IWFM Turbulent Times event Dr Toyin Aderiye, principal lecturer at Sheffield Hallam Univers...

In honour of 'International Women in Engineering Day' Pareto brought together 5 of our team members to discuss what it's like being a woman in the engineering sector. 

Topics include: 

1. Current roles within Pareto 

2. Why you chose engineering, how you got into engineer...

Pareto FM has issued an emotive Black Lives Matter statement in the wake of the recent killing of George Floyd. The Pareto board commissioned the wider Pareto team members to research, write and deliver the statement taking in to consideration the views, opinions and a...

RESTARTING OPS WITH A CLEAN SHEET

Covid-19 has placed the cleaning function front and centre. As organisations get ready for the return to work, we look at the changing cleaning processes.

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought a new sense of urgency to cleaning operations, w...

From happy/unhappy buttons in washrooms to apps rating service quality and tracking performance, employees and end users are more empowered than ever before to influence FM’s response to their input. Bradford Keen finds out how this feedback is being used to gamify mon...

Pareto FM have donated 1,000 food parcels to the working staff at ZSL London and Whipsnade Zoos. Part of international conservation charity, ZSL, the zoos are currently closed to the public but zookeepers continue to work to care for the animals. The food packages were...

The successful LGBT+ in FM group has stepped up to provide community support during the coronavirus crisis.

A new microsite, a personal message to all supporters and a range of online events are all part of a new plan from the LGBT+ in FM group, which aims to ensure tha...

Tomorrow Meets Today's award-winning success story

Collaborative working has been celebrated throughout the long history of the PFM Partnership Awards, so it was entirely fitting that the results of the partnership between Sajna Rahman and Andrew Hulbert were recognised...

D&I Leaders – LGBT+ in The Workplace Conference 2020

On the 27th February it was my absolute pleasure to attend the LGBT+ in The Workplace Conference 2020, organised by D&I Leaders – an organisation dedicated to providing independent news, reports and analysis to profes...