One thing that we have recently experienced especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is that the way we occupy and use our workspace has changed and there is a need to adopt a fresh approach related to productivity and performance.
Here are some of the ways how you can innovate the existing facility management processes to meet the customer needs and remain competitive in the facility management industry in the years ahead:
Use workspace more efficiently
You need to look beyond the conventional asset deployment practices and focus more on efficiently using the workspace to benefit all stakeholders.
To achieve this objective, you need to collaborate with the HR and the IT teams and also to integrate modern facility management software that supports the organizational goals and strategies.
Value creation
The typical yardstick by which facility management is evaluated is the reduction in costs. While that is going to remain a key parameter, there is also a need to create alternative ways of generating value for the workspace users and stakeholders. Providing better employee training facilities or a healthier office environment can be of great importance in this area.
Sustainable solutions
Modern office buildings consume as much as 40% of all power used globally, thus, sustainability is becoming a key topic in the infrastructure asset management industry. As facility managers, you need to take care of energy management, health and safety, waste management, recycling, water usage, and carbon footprint. Thus, you need to rethink and integrate all assets and systems into a framework managed by facility management software.
Optimise space
We live in a time of virtual workplaces and mobile workers, but not completely. Many still need workspaces to function and considering that real estate is expensive, optimized workspaces are critical.
Hence, developing new workspace designs with integrated flexible workstations, and distributed workspace strategy and mobile workplace strategy are some ways to get the maximum yield out of existing properties.
Facility management companies can use cutting-edge technology to enable the workspaces to handle high demands.
Leverage technology
As mentioned, technology is going to be the new enabler in the post-pandemic world. In many of the knowledge-oriented job profiles, the concept of workplace automatically features ideas like a virtual workplace. This is one service that has to be considered by the facility management professionals as a part of the service suite on offer.
Technology plays two critical roles. It has a direct impact on our work performance and also on the location. Modern office spaces integrating virtual workplaces, flexible desks and managing social distancing through technology will gain prevalence.
That’s something that contemporary facility management professionals need to understand and proactively act upon. Second, they also need to use technology to improve efficiency by using all available tools that can be helpful to the employees.
There are plenty of cloud-based facility management technologies available that comply with global standards and should be used to improve the experience of office spaces.
