In last month’s blog, I suggested that the old military adage ‘Plan for the worst and hope for the best’ was a sensible approach to adopt as we go into our difficult winter and tough 2021. Since then, England is enduring the imposition of a second lockdown because of the unabated spread of COVID-19. It’s …
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#Productivity in the workplace is often mistaken for ‘how much work can you squeeze out of your employees in smallest amount of time’ when in fact it is much deeper than that. Productivity is not about the quantity of work your employees complete but more about the quality. Encouraging the workforce to be in a …
Since March we have been supporting our clients to manage the immediate impact of COVID. This has included supporting our NHS clients to programme manage and reconfigure their estates to manage the initial COVID wave of patients, reprepare workplaces for the safe return of staff and university estates for the return of students. As we …
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Whilst browsing social media recently, I found myself reading the Siemen’s remote working policy which I think is a masterpiece! A policy which encourages more flexible working does not seem all that different, but their focus on Outcomes and Trust makes it really special. the relevant clause states: “The basis for this forward-looking working model …
At LCMB, we have been consistently working on optimising offices and workplaces for health, well-being, and performance for the last few years. This has been driven by our original research which examined the impact of the indoor environment quality on our performance and productivity. The Workplace Opportunity Our research has found that indoor environmental conditions …
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The UK Office of National Statistics reported that in April 2020, 49.2% of the working adult population were working at home as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. For many this change to homeworking was welcome and many have predicted that after this crisis is over, the office set-up as we know will be dead. …
On Sunday night, 10th May, Boris Johnson addressed the Nation and announced a “conditional plan” to reopen society and take England out of the current lockdown. Life will not return to our old normal anytime soon and we will have to get used to maintaining social distancing for some time yet. UK Government are understandably trying to …
I am amazed by how quickly we have all got in step with our new reality of living with COVID-19, the restrictions needed to keep us all safe and to protect our NHS. We are all fast becoming masters of new ways of working and technologies. Personally, I have been using MS Teams to stay in …
We will celebrate LCMB’s 10th birthday in January and we thought it would be interesting to look back how the world has changed over this time. Next month we’ll start looking at how productivity, carbon reduction and other building related issues have progressed over the last ten years, but right now we’re taking a slightly …
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