Brother Industries factory, Shenzhen, China, 2005
Assembly of multi-function office printers. The women are between 17 and 31 years of age, recruited from the interior of the Middle Kingdom.
Picture: Ray Hatley

The workplace

30 November 2006 | Unwired

Threats and IT etiquette: time to play them down

Fear has become our dominant ethic at work 240kB

3 November 2006 | FM World

The Food Miles controversy

In tracking every journey to every stomach, the Forum for the Future takes a retrograde step 460kB

| IT Week

Will eco-fear stifle innovation?

Knee-jerk IT choices made in the face of imaginary meltdowns could stymie technological innovation

24 September 2006 | IT Week

Smarty-pants ideas to make work better

Wearable IT is starting to have an impact in sport and may soon make a significant improvement to the lives of thousands of workers

Autumn 2006 | 10 years on: Demos Quarterly, Autumn 1996

Risky business

Today every workplace boasts codes of business ethics. But as long as 10 years ago, it was clear that ethics were a symptom of a wider aversion to risk 128kB

9 August 2006 | IT Week

UK energy rules leave managers cold

Systems to help firms obey the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive have a few shortcomings

31 July 2006 | spiked

Windmills of the mind

Why the UK government's energy policy is more concerned with changing our behaviour and mindsets than with actually supplying more energy.

13 June 2006 | IT Week

RFID wireless tags face hurdles

Privacy concerns and high costs may delay the widespread adoption of RFID technology

25 March 2006 | Facilities Management World

The Ten Commandments of FM

Everywhere you go in an office, regulators want to control your life. 52kB

24 March 2006 | IT Week

IT makes staff struggle in isolation

Staff development suffers in offices where technology takes precedence over human interaction.

| Facilities Management World

The Asset Testament

The beatitudes of corporate real estate 92kB

October 2005 | Website of Thomas Cole Kinder

Tomorrow's leaders will face one supreme challenge

FM is a mix of Property, Human Resources and IT, right? Well, it's both more complicated and simpler than that.

10 June 2005 | Facilities Management World

The Web of Intrigue

Mike Williams makes FM and IT so very simple.

April 2005 | The Parliament Magazine

Do Europeans work too hard?

Europe’s ills, such as they are, cannot all be blamed on work that is unbearably tough.

29 March 2005 | Nice Work - BBC Radio 4

The Wi-Fi Office/Knowledge Management

Wi-Fi is more than a niche, but not nearly as universal as we’d all like it to be. As for ‘KM’, it’s about the development of new knowledge, not just the transfer of the existing sort. 73kb

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