Editor’s Overview
They Said Who?
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate” — Cool Hand Luke (1967) Communication can be tricky when you are conversing with a whole industry: you mustn’t be too liberal...
The importance of competence in all things
Welcome to the 108th edition of ELEVATOR WORLD UK. Well, what a mixed bag of interesting subjects we have in this edition. Let me start by mentioning the U.K. Lift...
Surveying the Industry, Plus 100 Years of Code
We recently conducted a survey of the industry, mainly in the U.S. (see Taking the Pulse by Lindsay Fletcher). Nothing in it surprised me very much. We all had a...
A Focus on Speed
When will we all go back to the office? Paul Leonard, a management consultant at CoStar, a real estate research firm, believes office visits may reach 50% by Labor Day...
Help Wanted!!!
There were 9.3 million job openings in the U.S. at the end of April, a record high. And if finding workers wasn’t painful enough, retaining them was even harder. More...
When Will We Go Back to the Office?
On average, just a quarter of workers in the 10 biggest urban areas in North America have returned to offices, according to The Week. Paul Leonard, a management consultant at...
Welcome to the 107th edition of ELEVATOR WORLD UK
by Dave Cooper I am really pleased to be penning the introduction to this edition, as we have a number of authors who have not published with us previously. It...
An Air of Positivity
With the advent of spring comes renewed growth and hope. Maybe that has never been truer than this year, as we try to reestablish our “normal” lives after a very...
It’s All About the People
Things are stirring out there in the VT-verse. Fresh off the virus lockdowns, a new world awaits. It is a long, slow opening, like a flower bud, but no one...
Getting Back to Business
Just prior to writing this, I sat in on a meeting of U.S and Canada industry leaders. Organized by Elevator U and led by Eddie Morris (University of Virginia), the...
