Work Life

JULY 8, 2025

I didn’t expect this to be time employees could use in secret, but rather a plan agreed upon between employees and their manager to pursue an idea. This is especially important for those who are not involved in strategic planning. As confidence grows and the probability of success improves, a longer-term plan can be established.

Manufacturing

Workplace Insight

AUGUST 4, 2025

Around one third of employers in retail, hospitality and leisure, and more than a quarter in engineering, manufacturing, and logistics, anticipate challenges in accommodating the changes. This shift is expected to be particularly difficult in sectors where remote or hybrid working is less feasible. Other reforms are also prompting concern.

Flexibility

Success

MAY 8, 2025

The ongoing will-they-wont-they dynamic is causing uncertainty among manufacturers, dealerships and consumers. Think about what you need in your life right now, but also plan three [to] five years ahead of time, says AAA repair systems manager David Bennett. But this calculation shouldnt just be for today.

Purchasing

Workplace Insight

APRIL 28, 2025

Innovation, sustainability and wellbeing will be at the heart of the 2025 show, with an outstanding speaker programme planned across three dedicated stages: Workspace Design Talks, Occupiers Forum, and Sustainability Talks. The sessions aim to deliver critical insights and practical strategies for designing the workplace of tomorrow.

Mailing

Great Place to Work

JUNE 30, 2025

By training all employees — from agriculture to manufacturing to business roles — in continuous improvement practices, the company empowered them to identify and implement changes directly. Use a variety of methods to gather insights, revisit your change management plan, and make adjustments accordingly.

Communication

Workplace Insight

JULY 8, 2025

This is more than the space acquired by manufacturing (238,822 sq. JLL’s Future of Work survey indicates that 55 percent of financial services organisations plan to increase investment in central business district locations by 2030. ft) and service industries (224,813 sq. ft) and Edinburgh (121,400 sq.

Real Estate

Success

MARCH 29, 2025

As a VP of operations for a manufacturing company in 2007the beginning of the Great Recessionshe was tasked with laying off over 120 employees who, then, had to train their replacements due to a factory moving offshore. Hansen created a plan that didnt erode employee respect by finding out their needs and then lobbying for them.

Consulting

Work Life

APRIL 4, 2025

The Trump administration has argued that while tariffs may drive up prices, they will also help fuel job creation stateside, particularly across manufacturing. Others have argued that manufacturing employment actually dropped overall, despite modest gains in job creation across the steel industry.

Manufacturing

Work Life

JUNE 27, 2025

Her team had spent the last six months toward brand alignment, market research, product iterations, testing, launch planning, and marketing planning and were now finally ready to do something. New Balance has done this exceptionally well, maintaining its long-term manufacturing commitments in the U.S. Both made great points.

Leadership

Success

JUNE 20, 2025

In 2024, about 64% of people spent money with socially responsible businesses, and 32% planned to spend more in the future, according to a report by Good.Must.Grow. Here are a few companies that support ethical consumption: Violin string manufacturer Warchal accepts used strings of their brand in exchange for credit in their online store.

Purchasing

BMT Office Administration

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

CLM proves very useful in manufacturing, real estate, finance, healthcare, and technology. Will this platform integrate seamlessly with our existing systems, such as CRM (customer relation management) and ERP (enterprise resource planning)? Is this contract lifecycle management software intuitive and user-friendly?

Software

BMT Office Administration

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While it’s most common for manufacturing companies, a TQM approach can also prove fruitful for other businesses. He later published Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product in 1931, greatly influencing Dr. W. It stands for: Plan. Edwards Deming , commonly credited as the father of modern quality control.

Manufacturing

McKensey

JULY 17, 2025

This is largely driven by electrification, data center load growth , and increased demand from the manufacturing sector. Utilities can include next-generation geothermal assets in their resource planning. 1 “ AI power: Expanding data center capacity to meet growing demand ,” McKinsey, October, 29, 2024.

Cleaning

McKensey

AUGUST 5, 2025

A seismic threefold increase in advanced-manufacturing investment could transform rural America by driving economic growth, creating high-quality jobs, and revitalizing communities.

Manufacturing

Great Place to Work

MARCH 19, 2025

In a manufacturing setting, that could be units produced per hour. Implementing regular engagement surveys, pulse surveys, and performance feedback plans are all ways you can measure the employee experience. For example, if your company brings in $5 million annually with 50 employees, that's $100,000 in revenue per employee.

Leadership

Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Solution: Creating development plans for employees that outline clear pathways for career advancement, including mentoring and training opportunities, can help them enhance their skills. Based on that, plan out the necessary plans and guide them. Ensure that you have a clear picture of where they want their career graph to move.

Retail

Mad in America

APRIL 11, 2025

I described doing an eight-month taper off 60 mg in 2019 and getting SLAMMED with delayed akathisia so severe that I had a plan to end my life if reinstatement of the drug didnt work. My brain and my life are dependent upon a pharmaceutical company in India staying in business and manufacturing generic duloxetine until the day I die.

Pharmaceutical

McKensey

JULY 17, 2025

Improved business continuity planning and dual-sourcing practices provide needed agility during periods of disruption. Given increasingly urgent needs for strategic workforce planning , “talent stability”—a company’s ability to attract, retain, and especially engage their workers —has assumed strategic importance.

Problem-Solving

Great Place to Work

JUNE 4, 2025

The benefits of change management for businesses include improved adaptability, enhanced employee engagement, and increased overall productivity : Cost savings A well-structured and executed change management plan can lead to a more efficient use of resources, reduced delays, and smoother transitions, all of which contribute to lower overall costs.

Leadership

Vantage Circle

MARCH 18, 2025

This is particularly crucial in industries like manufacturing, construction, and healthcare, where regulations are rigid, and safety is essential. This type of program is especially beneficial in industries bearing high risk, such as construction, manufacturing, or logistics.

Manufacturing

Success

JULY 31, 2025

After fatal crashes in 2018, 2019 and 2025 , and at least nine malfunction incidents in the first half of 2024, the plane manufacturer has a lot of work to do to rebuild trust with employees, authorities and the public. Ortberg plans to save Boeing by rebuilding its corporate culture and focusing on passenger safety to regain public trust.

Manufacturing

Workplace Insight

MAY 9, 2025

This streamlined platform brings together verified manufacturers with engaged buyers actively seeking sustainable and biophilic design solutions. The Journal has been repeatedly asked for recommendations on products with biophilic, sustainable, and regenerative credentials, and the Sourcing Hub is planned to deliver this.

Manufacturing

Great Place to Work

MAY 30, 2025

Key components of effective employee pulse surveys While theres no one-size-fits-all approach for conducting pulse surveys, here are some key components of an effective pulse survey plan: Prep carefully. However, its important to only survey your employees if you plan to take action. Implementation rates for post-survey action plans.

Automotive

Success

APRIL 6, 2025

For investors who love to plan ahead, Publics app allows users to create personalized investment plans they can invest in on a recurring basis. The collection could consist of certain stocks in a sector like manufacturing or short-term bonds, for example.

Purchasing

McKensey

JUNE 3, 2025

Increasing circularity in copper could significantly lower emissionsbut first, the industry will need to capture uncollected copper scrap.

Manufacturing

Mad in America

AUGUST 9, 2025

Today, drug and device business strategy and planning is backed by an army of researchers, communication companies, and consultants. This expansion may not have been the original plan, but it’s how atypicals started being prescribed for behaviors only loosely related to schizophrenia.

Pharmaceutical

Workplace Insight

MARCH 16, 2025

The British Furniture Confederation (BFC) , the public affairs umbrella body of furniture and beds, furnishings and flooring sector trade associations, has unveiled its new Plan for Growth. UK-based manufacturing accounts for 9.8 billion of this, emanating from around 9,000 companies employing over 91,000.

Government

The Receptionist

JULY 27, 2023

If you work in manufacturing, you’re no stranger to compliance. Understanding Visitor Compliance for Manufacturers Manufacturing visitor compliance broadly refers to adhering to legal and safety regulations when managing visitor access within your facility. One such case is how to handle your facility’s visitors.

Manufacturing

All Work

JANUARY 25, 2022

28% of this derive from operational emissions – the carbon omitted by powering, heating and cooling a building – while 11% is a by-product of embodied emissions which are produced through the extraction, transportation, manufacturing, and assembly of the materials used to build, fit out and furnish a building.

Manufacturing

All Work

AUGUST 26, 2021

Custom products play an increasingly important role in the reconfigured and refreshed workplaces that are being planned and implemented. We reached out to some of our favorite manufacturers to learn more about why their custom capabilities are a great resource for the design community.

Manufacturing

All Work

JUNE 29, 2022

Given the proliferation of easily customizable furnishings and lush materials, one trend was clear: manufacturers are betting on choice and design to draw workers back to the workplace. . Manufacturers’ offerings clearly acknowledged that hybrid work is now the norm and will likely continue to be so, going forward. . “In

Manufacturing

All Work

MAY 20, 2022

As Ramsay puts it, they are “pieces of furniture that occupy a large part of a floor plan”. . For example, tall lockers are often used to create space division in a floor plan and act as a functional storage wall. 80% of Teknion’s component parts are manufactured in-house, they add. “For

Manufacturing

Work Life

JUNE 16, 2025

“I think there are a lot of businesses that can be manufactured to be authentic,” says Greg Bettinelli, TCG’s partner who led the investment. as they plan to take advantage of next year’s World Cup. In 2024, for the first time, the company took outside investment, in the form of $38.5

Retail

Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The survey of with 201 C-Suite Executives in the UK’s manufacturing sector found that 63 percent of respondents said that sustainability is a high priority for the business and 31 percent confirmed that they have a carbon reduction plan in place. Some may not even realise that Scope 3 emissions must be tackled to achieve net zero.”

Manufacturing

The Receptionist

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Since these situations invariably cause panic, having a solid emergency evacuation plan in place is the best way to handle them. To help you in your planning, here’s an additional Emergency Response Plan checklist from the Department of Homeland Security. What You Need in an Office Emergency Evacuation Plan 1.

Planning

Work Life

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Boeing has been under intense scrutiny following a dangerous incident on an Alaska Airlines flight last month, capping off a challenging five years for the aircraft manufacturer in the aftermath of two major crashes. “People don’t get stupider,” Cliff Collier, a seasoned aerospace manufacturing consultant, told Bloomberg.

Planning

All Work

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The collection was designed in collaboration with Pearson Lloyd , Bene’s long-standing design partners, and manufactured by the London-based eco startup, Batch.Works. bFRIENDS’ designs reflect the layer-by-layer 3D printing manufacturing process (Photography: Alex Sarginson). “Of course! This could be the future.

Manufacturing