As the government roadmap continues to pan out, it’s clear that remote working is here to stay, whether with some employees now based at home full-time, or a new, hybrid model with colleagues going to a workplace on a part-time basis. A CIPD study predicts that permanent remote working is set to double from pre-pandemic…
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Are you ready to go back to the office yet?
The move to remote working has changed global working practices. This March, Harvard Business School found 81 per cent of people didn’t want to return to the office or preferred a hybrid schedule. For facilities teams, shifting circumstances, attitudes and working patterns present an ever-changing challenge to running offices safely and productively. Flexibility, communication and…
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Vale of Aylesbury aims for 100% IoT with Switchee
Vale of Aylesbury Housing has begun installing Switchee IoT devices in around 15 per cent of its properties, towards its longer-term goal of making all of its 6,500 properties fully IoT-connected. The housing provider is using Switchee’s smart thermostats to pre-emptively identify and resolve problems with mould and damp, based on its successful trial of…
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Embrace multiple apps & maximise mobility
Mobilising people and processes is still a challenge, both technically and culturally. While the technology behind smart devices has advanced at pace since their introduction in 2008, and with the proliferation of mobile working over the past 18 months, further development has been expedited so we now have more access to software and hardware designed…
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Pursuing change and transformation at pace
A best-in-class enterprise architecture for housing providers is increasingly built on a cloud-first, mobile-first and web-first trio of guiding principles. In fact, these cornerstones, when combined with data and culture, form the basis of many of the digital transformation strategies that I have read about in the past year or so, and for good reason….
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Raven Housing’s iProperty experience
We’ve successfully just gone live with TechLabs London’s iProperty Cloud, built on Microsoft’s Power Platform and Dynamics 365. Over recent months, we’ve been working with TechLabs to enhance iProperty Cloud to meet our specific needs. This first iterative go-live within our larger ‘better connected’ programme included full CRM capability, providing a 360-degree view of customer…
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