Illuminating the Topics and Stories That Resonated with You
Our blog and social platforms offer great spaces for us to share news, information, and expert insights with a wide audience of customers, employees and partners. But communicating is a two-way street, and we love hearing your feedback, seeing your likes and shares, and identifying the topics that really resonate. In 2024 we covered a wide array of subjects with more than 50 new blogs whose range reflected our growth and development as a company. The following were particularly popular among our followers.
- How Facility Services Can Elevate Workplace Culture
Did you know that a pristine and expertly maintained facility can positively impact employees’ moods, satisfaction, and productivity? The research backs it up, specifically when it comes to issues like lighting, acoustics, aesthetics, and air quality. At a time when employee engagement and retention is increasingly challenging, people found this blog particularly thought-provoking. - Technology Spotlight: Elevating a University’s CMMS to Increase Efficiency and Productivity
Everyone likes a success story. This blog reveals how UG2 replaced a university’s 10-year-old computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) with a modern Prism system that streamlined operations, improved reporting, and enabled better-informed decision-making—accomplished on an accelerated timeline. - How Real Time Data is Dramatically Improving Facility Services
The massive influx of available data today can be overwhelming unless you know how best to use it. From cleaner facilities and streamlined asset management to more efficient processes and safety improvements, the use of targeted data allows leading facility services providers like UG2 to level up our offerings across the board and save customers money along the way. - Why Facility Services Matters
It’s easy to take facility services for granted when a lot of what we provide happens in the background, but the impact of our work is quite dramatic when you witness all that our teams accomplish from the inside. This blog captures the ways that every day, across the country, our teams are keeping people safe from illness and injury, supporting critical research, creating more productive work environments, turning living spaces into extraordinary homes, helping retailers operate thriving businesses, and much, much more. - National Safety Month: Slips, Trips & Falls
A detailed checklist can help ensure that safety practices are fully integrated into your operations. This UG2 tool complements our safety planning e-book, which outlines strategies to reduce risk. Given UG2’s robust record of safety success, you’d be wise to check both out and adopt them to the unique needs of your specific facility. - Life Science Facilities Demand Excellence and UG2 Delivers
UG2 excels at meeting the complex facility management needs of customers in the life sciences field. This blog lays out the factors customers have cited that make us a great partner as we strive to be citizens of our customers’ industries, listen to and customize services, share our thorough understanding of the evolving talent pool, invest in training, cross-train teams, and more. - The Many Hats of Successful Facility Services Managers
Advancing facility services and setting a new standard of excellence requires real leadership, and our facility services managers are the best of the best. This blog highlights and applauds their range of talents as they empower their teams, advocate for safety, improve quality and performance, and act as stewards of sustainability, tech, communication, and collaboration. - Significant Advantages of Partnering with Expert Facility Services from Day 1
Engaging an experienced facility manager brings myriad advantages—and when they become involved with your facility from the start, the bigger the return on your investment. You’ll reap benefits from clarity and transparency, a comprehensive approach to context for informed decision making, and continuity of services, practices, and protocols. - Empowering, Developing & Retaining the Next Generation Workforce
Lauren Lanzillo, Vice President of culture and community for UG2, published an article for Facilities Manager on UG2’s approach to developing the new generation of facility services talent. This blog reviews highlights of our efforts discussed in the article, from building strong relationships and initiating career conversations to creating development plans and seeing them through. - Budget Planning Strategies for Your Facilities
UG2 shares essential budgeting strategies in this evergreen blog. We review tips and considerations such as combining services for savings, investigating CMMS options, prioritizing preventative maintenance, engaging trusted partners, communicating about budget constraints, planning for occupancy, and engaging in smarter capital planning and asset management.
As innovators who are breaking the mold when it comes to delivering facility services, we are thrilled to share our latest insights and lessons learned. That open-sourced approach to teaching and learning has made UG2 the success story we are today.