Latin America. There are several customers who often, and erroneously, believe that outsourcing basic services, such as cleaning and maintenance of facilities, is expensive and unnecessary. However, those who understand the importance of hiring this type of services, save on operating costs at the level of time, money and human resources.
Sodexo, the leading French company in services and Quality of Life, explains the five reasons why companies should have Facility Management (FM) services, as a long-term impact solution.
Know-how
The ideal for any company to be productive is that it dedicates all the capacity it has in its main activity, hence outsourcing some services does good to its corporate health, because having specialized teams whose experience is at the service of your needs, is the best way to optimize resources.
Maintenance
The key is to train the human team, because it is not only about providing it with the necessary tools, but also about training it to use them properly. When talking about the World of Facilities Management, far from pigeonholing this activity to cleaning, technical issues are also ensured with regard to facilities.
More than buildings
When it comes to spaces, the concept of Facility Management goes beyond ensuring that in the facilities, things like air conditioning, plumbing, cleaning and electrical systems, work properly. Well, far from being exclusively linked to the building, infrastructure management, as the FM service is also known, is responsible for helping the client identify opportunities to gain efficiency, save costs, enhance asset investments and extend their useful life.
The benefits of outsourcing this service range from auditing and advising on efficiency in water and energy consumption, to planning spaces that help companies make better use of the facilities available to their employees.
Saving
The reduction of expenses that can be had when you have the engineering and the right personnel in specific services, can generate savings between 5% and 20%. Facility Management, once acquired by companies, will optimize the management of their assets by streamlining processes.
Professionalization of cleaning
When it comes to ensuring and managing the best functioning of the properties and their services, people, spaces, processes and technologies are integrated. Offering maintenance solutions has led to expanding the techniques to do so, as infrastructures become more sophisticated, it is essential to have highly qualified experts, leaving these services in their hands is the key to being increasingly competitive.
