New research has shown that shorter wave UV lights can be a safe and effective way to slow viruses, pathogens, mold, and bacteria in public places like hospitals, schools and nursing homes.

Providing apprenticeships for high school students through partnerships with schools and giving access to the latest technology are two options to engage younger hires.

Providing a path for career growth and leadership opportunities are key to keeping top talent.

A single service provider can inventory and aggregate data from the client's facility and equipment allowing the facilities management team to view the client's needs holistically. The data produced by this predictive technology gives FM professionals the information needed to predict how their equipment is maintained, repaired and/or replaced.

The most popular systems are fully customizable and can monitor and measure all major manufacturers' building controls equipment. They have the capability to analyze data from a variety of systems allowing data collection on benchmark performance, output and energy savings.

Green Buildings

Since 2016, nearly 5% of the tourism & hospitality entities that BitSight tracks (out of a total of almost 2,000) have experienced a publicly disclosed data breach. This is the 4th highest percentage of breach out of the 23 key sectors BitSight monitors, trailing only healthcare, education, and government.

Though it is often assumed that larger organizations perform better in cybersecurity, the data on Fortune 1000 companies in this industry suggests otherwis

For example, Fortune 1000 tourism & hospitality companies are performing poorly compared to the sector as a whole when it comes to reducing unnecessary Internet exposures (“Open Ports”).

For all companies, tourism & hospitality has the 2nd highest percentage of companies with an Open Port grade of D or lower (Education is 1st).

Ultimately, cyber incidents like the Marriott breach confirm that companies in this industry need to be much more about proactively mitigating the risk posed by their supply chain given the sensitive consumer information they contain in their databases.

Thus, customer satisfaction levels can go up or stay at a high point, enabling the property to become more profitable.

With those insights, they can optimize and improve their services and make sure that tenants experience only the height of comfort.

Apart from that, organizations can also employ analytics to discover patterns and relationships between various aspects of the business. It is useful for forecasts, which can help the property management to be ready for any event in the future.

Hence, businesses can extract deeper insights and meaningful patterns. This can help them gain a competitive edge in their field since they are able to uncover new opportunities and find answers to questions.

A property management app can harness this and enable owners or managers to predict when leads are ready to rent, lease, or upgrade their current property. Property management software can also use analytics to personalize interactions–gearing the conversation towards tailored offers and services. With this, it is possible to win over more tenants as you show them how to provide great online customer service your way.

In the field of property management, this can be applied to document management, contract management, and portfolio management. You can configure workflows for those processes and ensure that everyone in your organization adheres to best practices.

Instead of calling or visiting the property office to lodge their requests, they can simply pull up the property mobile solution. Therein they can create service requests that is processed smoothly by the app so that your maintenance team can take care of them in order.

There are platforms that support the real-time monitoring of units and properties using IoT sensors. With this, there is no need for property managers to rely on other interfaces to watch the sensors’ status. Instead, they can access the data directly from the property application’s screen.

Additionally, IoT sensors can offer insights into the performance of spaces and buildings. Using those, the management can transform spaces to make them more likable for tenants. This way, they can attract more people and keep a steady stream of revenue.

These integrate innovative technologies that change the way property administration is done–shorter waiting times for both the manager and clients, better market predictions, accurate numbers and no more paper-pushing. As a result, managers can take care of their core responsibilities that include tenant screening, rent setting and collection, property maintenance, and budgeting.

One example that Napoli finds interesting is how retailers are teaming with influencers to co-create exclusive collections. (Think Something Navy's success with Nordstrom). "Those kinds of partnerships allow the influencer the ability to reach out to their following," says Napoli. "Not only is the influencer co-creating with the brand or retailer, but also really leveraging Instagram tools, which are polls and submitting feedback, to determine what to create next."

new apps are starting to pop up with social commerce at the core of their business.

Each brand or store on Countr, including Bloomingdale's, Outdoor Voices, Aritizia and hundreds more, is personalized with product recommendations based on the user's social activity.

"Starting Countr came from the realization that online shopping is still really inefficient and, more importantly, shopping is fundamentally a social experience,"

In January, Eric Senn launched Storr, another app in this space that essentially turns people into retailers. "We're really excited about the potential that Storr has to revolutionize traditional retail and capitalize on the social commerce movement in a way that empowers people to make money that would normally go to traditional retailers," says Senn.

"We're moving away from channel-first commerce to people-first commerce."

"Along the way, we lost the social experience that shopping can be, which so many people have enjoyed throughout the history of commerce."

"What Twitch did was it created not only a livestream experience, but a meaningful interaction through that livestream over a shared experience."

Creating a space that's a one-stop shop where people can have a community and share images of items they may be able to purchase back and forth with friends — there's a real ROI to that. That's the revolution here."

ome of that funding will undoubtedly be invested in smart grid technology (essential to large-scale sustainable energy) and

microgrids, which frequently make use of renewable energy sources.

Economic uncertainty will likely lead many consumers to delay large capital expenditures, causing a temporary downturn in rooftop solar installations.

Residential sales and installations will continue, however, which leads to concerns about worker and customer health and safety.

Some analysts estimate that wind farms, which normally operate at 95 percent capacity, could drop to just 85 percent capacity due to travel issues related to COVID-19. And much like solar, new wind farms could be delayed because of factory shutdowns, travel restrictions, and investor concerns.

In general, we can expect the renewable energy industry to experience a slight setback during the next year or two, but it’s already gained enough momentum to keep moving forward, regardless of short-term slowdowns.