Baker Stuart are proud to announce they are exhibiting at the Facilities Show 2016 in partnership with Condeco. The Facilities Show is one of the biggest events in our industry, providing informative seminars, case studies and panel debates around the broad topics of facilities management. Last year the show welcomed over 11,000 facilities management professionals […]
Sound Advice – A new White Paper on Office Noise
Office noise can be worse than it sounds. From the piercing cry of a small baby to the distant rumble of thunder over the hills, sound is notorious in its ability to provoke a range of physical, physiological and psychological responses in humans. Whilst it’s unlikely that your average office worker is going to be […]
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Relocating a Business
Baker Stuart’s own Jackie Furey provides PFM readers with her thoughts on best practice when relocating… “If poorly executed, a business relocation can be the most unproductive and stressful time a workforce will experience. Moving all members of staff, reconfiguring equipment, assembling furniture and moving all company goods with zero impact on productivity, may at […]
Stressed Out – A new White Paper on Workplace Stress
Workplace Stress. An unemployed graduate is plagued by eczema. A bereaved woman suffers a heart attack. A divorced man develops high blood pressure. Are these circumstances linked… or mere coincidences? Stress is an ever-present influence on our health and well-being, therefore awareness of its impact is critical. The UK Chief Medical Officer raised concerns in […]
Are sit-stand desks the solution to back pain at work?
Sit-stand desks have been hailed as the answer to back and neck pain at work, but what is the evidence that they are effective? This article from Personnel Today explores the hotly contested topic of sit stand, with comments from Colin Stuart on the matter. “You don’t need a fancy desk to get your people to move about more, nor do you need any diktats from H […]
Changing Spaces – Public Sector Building
Many public sector workplaces are in need of improvement, but how can critical change to these working environments be made on a shoestring budget? Colin Stuart discusses workplace improvement – without colossal costs… “The key to improving the workplace on a budget lies foremost in understanding your current space, identifying ways of making savings, considering […]
I Quit! – A new White Paper on Staff Attrition
Whether a company sells, invents or builds, all businesses share one universal similarity: an organisation can’t move forward without people. With the total cost of an employee leaving in excess of the employee’s annual salary, retaining staff and moving forward in harmony means the difference between flourishing and dying for any organisation looking to prosper in […]
A 4-Day Working Week? – A new White Paper
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay titled “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”. In this work, Keynes forecasted that in one hundred years hence, we would be working a 15-hour week. Yet today, nearly a century on, we revel in material opulence unimagined by the likes of Keynes, but we still persist with work […]
Standing Desks – A new White Paper
Standing desks are in. Once the province of Scandinavian design magazines, the stand-up desk is extending to the world of corporate drones over here in the rest of Europe. And, as it appears, for good reason — there’s an increasing array of medical evidence that hours of uninterrupted sitting can be surprisingly bad for your health. […]
Hotbox Review – Six mobile storage boxes for agile working
Many organisations are embracing agile working; they’ve said goodbye to the traditional set up of one desk allocated to each employee and have made the transition to having shared workspaces and desk sharing. However, this is not without it’s challenges. The removal of traditional one-to-one desk allocations in the workspace means that many employers are […]
