Top Ten reasons your company needs a focused, streamlined and strategic Facilities Management Department
Does your Company know why Facilities Management is essential to get the best value out of your Facilities Assets?
Have you assigned the Facilities Management function to one or many of your admin staff as part of their daily functions?
Having a professional Facilities Management Department to provide strategic direction is critical to lowering costs, minimising risk and providing a safe and comfortable environment for your employees.
The following are TEN reasons your company needs a strategic Facilities Management Department:
1. Facilities Management is a profession that encompasses multiple support services that need to operate coherently to ensure functionality of your working environment .
2. Facilities are one of your company’s largest assets therefore a good Facilities strategy will maximize value and minimize costs, adding directly to the bottom line.
3. Facilities Management provide employees with their working environment and this has a large impact on productivity.
4. Office accommodation, whether your company is in a growth phase or not, require strategic planning to minimize costs and maximize value. A good Facilities Management Department provides strategic direction and development or leasing guidance to achieve the results your company needs.
5. A good working environment is important for your company and its employees as well as corporate image. A Facilities Department is the custodian in maintaining ensuring a good working environment and maintaining your corporate image.
6. The environmental and legislative complexity of owning or leasing Facilities represents a huge risk to the company. The Facilities Management Department understands these requirements and mitigates the risk.
7. Your company’s facilities require a diverse team of generalists and specialists to provide a variety of services. The Facilities Management Department understands how to make these resources work together to maximize value, reduce risk and minimize costs.
8. A Facilites Management Department takes on this burden and frees up other resources to fully focus on what makes your company successful in delivering its core business and generating bottom line results.
9. A professional Facilities Management Department has the training, background and experience in all areas of the complex issues and services required to provide safe, effective environment for your company to operate in and focus on its core business.
10. A Facilities Department has the experience and overall oversight for Facilities issues, enabling them to see patterns, track changes and identify risks that may have a future negative impact.
Allow Team FM to move your current Facilities Management Department from the “Boiler room to the Boardroom.”
