Wild and wacky workplaces are in vogue
12/09/2011
By Marianne Halavage, the newest member of the Magenta Associate’s team The trend seems to be for workplaces, creative and otherwise, to look increasingly wild …
Citizens Advice sets trend for multi-use buildings
05/10/2011
The news that the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) is set to use churches, and other places of worship, to provide face-to-face advice in the local …
Magenta’s Lionel Prodgers wins Overall Industry Impact at the BIFM Awards 2011
11/10/2011
Lionel Prodgers has won the award for Overall Industry Impact at the BIFM Awards 2011. The non-executive director of Magenta Associates, who is credited as …
The office of small things
17/10/2011
Our productivity at work is ruined by small things – the light which is just a little too bright, or dim; the office being too …
Social media viruses in the workplace are on the increase
24/10/2011
Coughs and sniffles are commonplace at this time of the year as our bodies adjust to the cold and wet autumnal weather. But recently I …
Phoenix welcomes World Workplace
26/10/2011
I haven’t been to World Workplace, the mass gathering of American facilities (sorry facility) managers for a few years and I’d forgotten the sheer scale …
Carnival time at World Workplace
27/10/2011
So the World Workplace carnival is officially underway. IFMA president Kathy Roper this morning opened the gathering of what she described as “alpha facility managers” …
A sad farewell to Phoenix
31/10/2011
World Workplace is over for another year, and I’m leaving Phoenix exhausted (existing in two timezones is grueling, but the ‘networking’ is quite tough too) …
Going places: Charlie Bunn does a week’s work experience at Magenta
04/11/2011
Charlie Bunn joined the Magenta team for a week’s work experience. Here he writes about his adventures. It may be of those semi-mythic activities which …
Remembering Peter Middup
18/11/2011
The news announced today that Peter Middup, the long-standing publisher of P&FM, died this week has shocked everyone in the facilities management sector. For me …
