As noted by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), facility management is a profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, process and technology.
In order to fulfill their mandate, facility managers need to have a network of partners, suppliers and vendors who they can contact at a moment’s notice – even in the middle of the night or during a holiday – to get everything from insightful advice to on-the-ground assistance.
And without question, one of the most important – and indeed, the most profitable – relationships for facility managers to cultivate is with office furniture installers. Here are the 5 key reasons why:
1. Access to Expertise
Facility managers regularly need to provide executives and board members with recommendations regarding current assets and proposed investments. Office furniture installers can provide invaluable expertise that facility managers need to steer their organizations in the right direction, and ensure that they are making wise strategic decisions.
2. Redeployment Support
Just because an organization isn’t changing addresses every year or so doesn’t mean that employees are sitting tight. On the contrary, re-deployment is constantly happening as people shift from office to office, and floor to floor. Furniture installers can help make this process efficient and safe, and free up facility managers to focus on the bigger picture.
3. Special Events and Functions
Special events and functions – whether they’re held on-site or off-site – typically involve a significant amount of furniture setup. Facility managers who have office furniture installers on hand can count on getting the help they need to ensure that all furniture items will be installed and un-installed professionally, safely and efficiently.
4. Furniture Decommission
Facility managers regularly designate certain items of office furniture as surplus and redundant. Holding onto these items is a waste of space, plus if they aren’t properly maintained and stored, they may require costly maintenance down the road before being put back into circulation. Facility managers who partner with office furniture installers can efficiently have decommissioned items uninstalled, and then transferred as directed (e.g. shipped to a used furniture dealer for liquidation, recycled, donated, stored/warehoused for any length of time, etc.).
5. Space Utilization
Facility managers are tasked with ensuring that office space is effectively and efficiently utilized. Office furniture installers can directly support this objective by providing advice and guidance – and just as importantly, by proactively highlighting risks and limitations that could lead to problems down the road.
Learn More
To learn more about why facility managers should definitely have office furniture installers on hand, contact the Precision team today. We have over three decades of experience, and are proud to be the experts that facility managers trust time and again!
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