The document discusses various trends impacting the facility management field, including linking facility management more closely to company strategy, preparing for emergencies, adopting sustainable practices, using new technologies, and addressing an aging building stock. It also notes trends around changes in workspaces with more shared and remote work arrangements. The trends are based on research from IFMA on topics like moving and relocation benchmarks, distributed work strategies, and commercial real estate industry conditions.

2. American Moving and Storage Association PANEL DISCUSSION Workforce Trends Peter M. Winters, CFM, CFMJ, AIA Director, IFMA Board of Directors and Senior Vice President, HOK Advance Strategies

4. Here’s the bad news…

5. Current Trends in the Commercial Real Estate Industry

8. Space and Project Management Benchmarks IFMA Research Report #28

9. Office Type

11. Reasons for Moving

12. Where They’re Moving

13. Who Physically Does the Moving

14. Resources Provided to Individuals Affected by Moves Resources % Moving boxes 80% Designated staff move coordinators 66% “ How-to-pack” memos 57% “ How-to-pack” meetings 30% Rented stacking crates 28% Bubble bags 18% Hired move consultants 18% Move Web site 8%

15. Post-relocation Activities Provided Activities % Furniture adjustments 83% Roving department facilities support 61% On-site technology set-up support 60% Technology help desk 56% Post occupancy evaluation 33% Lost and found 22% Satisfaction survey within first week 19% Follow up survey several weeks later 14% Other 9%

16. Distributed Work Strategies Report Early Findings (not yet published by IFMA)

17. Allocation of Workspace

20. FMs with Workers Sharing Workspace in Their Facilities (Two or more workers sharing same space or desk)

33. Facility Management Forecast 2007 Exploring the Current Trends and Future Outlook for Facility Management Professionals www.ifma.org -- free download