Industry News

This World FM Day blog shines a light on the FM professionals and service contractors behind safe, reliable and welcoming buildings. It explores how hard FM teams turn belonging into something practical, through compliant systems, responsive service, well-maintained assets and the everyday work that keeps built environments running.

Facilities management is under pressure from tighter margins, rising complexity and a growing skills gap. In this Q&A, Thermatic CEO Joe Lyon shares how the business is responding with a people-first approach to growth.

This blog shares new Joblogic analysis showing that UK service and maintenance businesses could unlock over £1 billion in savings simply by changing when jobs are logged and scheduled. It explores timing patterns like the Wednesday 4 pm “golden hour”, the impact of out of hours work and morning spikes, and explains how Joblogic customers can use their own data to smooth workloads, cut avoidable costs and protect engineer capacity.

When every second counts, you need to see the full picture. Arriving on site without a detailed breakdown of asset locations costs more than time. It slows inspections, delays repairs, and, in safety-critical sectors, puts people at risk. Joblogic already gives you the tools to track and manage assets, upload site plans, and place a pin exactly where each asset sits. But as portfoli [...]

What is Gas Safety Week? Gas Safety Week is an annual campaign run by the Gas Safe Register, which aims to raise awareness about the importance of gas safety both at home and in the workplace. Celebrating its 12th year in 2022, Gas Safety Week will be running from 12th-18th September 2022 with one common goal – ‘keeping the nation gas safe’. Gas appliances can cause leaks, carbon mono [...]

The recent incentive for Green home improvements, announced in Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement, has slashed VAT to 0% on energy efficiency measures for the next 5 years! It’s fantastic news for homeowners and for installation companies. The VAT cut has been welcomed by campaigners and experts in the sector who have long argued that the additional cost of VAT on energy efficiency measur [...]

What is a Field Service Invoice? Six Simple Ways to Improve your Field Service Invoices What Types of Invoices are There? How to Write an Invoice When’s the Best Time for Your Client to Pay an Invoice? Download Free Invoice Templates with Joblogic Whether you operate in construction, electronics or HVAC services, invoicing should be fundamental to your business process. An excellent [...]

Take a look around you. How many of your colleagues, managers, employees, business partners or other leaders in your sector are women? More to the point, how many of them are in qualified engineering or technical roles? If you are in the engineering, construction or building services sectors, the chances are it’s very few. Just 11% of the engineering sector in the UK is made up of wom [...]

Saturday 14th September sees the introduction of new EU-enforced security regulations in a bid to tackle online fraudulent activity. The latest release comes in the form of a Two Factor Authentication process which will require users to complete an additional step to verify their account before being able to access their data. In order to keep you well informed on this important secur [...]

Joblogic’s journey to creating the best software for our customers is far from over. We have been working hard to deliver significant improvements to the infrastructure. Since November 2017, multiple changes have been made to improve security and performance. New Improvements We have increased the number of hypervisors from 2 to 4. A hypervisor (also known as a virtual machine monito [...]