by Brianna Crandall — January 17, 2011—The British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) has released its review of the role of the workplace in Britain’s post-recessional economy, revealing the challenges facing workplace management, as almost two-thirds of organizations surveyed state they are seeking to reduce office space, increase occupier density and evolve new workplace structures to facilitate the new “nomadic” employee trend.
The Role of the Workplace Environments in a Post-Recessional British Economy, available to download for members and for a short time for non-members, represents the responses of 262 businesses and exposes the strategic importance of facilities management in addressing the pressures on budgets and cultural change in working trends in order to deliver effective workplaces.
Ian Fielder, BIFM chief executive, said that “each square meter of the workplace is having to work harder. The workplace will have to both house increasing numbers of staff and act as the ‘mothership’ to those nomadically displaced to home or elsewhere, when they do need to return for face-to-face activities or a simple corporate re-charge.”
