You are an executive sitting at your desk and have facility management activities within your responsibility in the Panama City Beach, FL area but do not have much experience managing these services with your wide expanse of responsibility. You may not be happy with the way facility or building maintenance is being done in your business, you may be happy with the services of your business but do not know if your current maintenance company is doing a good job keeping up with your quarterly maintenance. You may also feel concerned that there may be some potential liabilities lurking out there that are not being addressed properly.

Here are 5 major reasons why outsourcing facilities management is beneficial to an organization building management programs

(1)  Cost Containment and Accountability Equals Savings

These days, cost effectiveness is a major reason why businesses outsource facilities management activities. Once business owners outsource their building management and facilities programs and they set up the right contractual relationship with the service provider they can see reduce costs in several different ways:

•  Employee Substitution Equals Savings — Savings relating to substituting your employees with outsourced contractors are extremely less by the time all figures are calculated. You should know just the training alone involved in OSHA regulations are strenuous enough, but to even think about training new maintenance personnel employee can be extremely costly these days.
• Labor Optimization Equals Savings — Achieving the correct balance of a site based multi-skilled employee workforce and outside “per call” general contractor can be a great balance and fit for many structured companies.
• Process Improvement Equals Savings — Reductions in cost relating to improved work processes and procedures. The supervision alone is a daunting task, employing a supervisor for a maintenance department can be significant cost factor per annual year. I have paid close attention to companies outgrow their maintenance obligations and lose control of their facility maintenance.
• Building Optimization Equals Savings — Savings relating to the initiation, management and optimization of the total cost of ownership. This can be tricky, I’ve watched companies do very little maintenance with the attitude that spending less saves them money. Well, this does however sound great, but let me explain this little bit of knowledge gathered through years of personal experience in the facility maintenance business, “It Does Not Work” I have experienced that quarterly commercial maintenance can save you money.          Let me explain, by the time all your maintenance issues arise all at once you’re now looking at extensive amounts of cost to correctly address this situation.

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