While in many private companies and in certain countries around the world the General Services sector is still considered an expense for the company, in other places the Facility Management discipline is managed as one that adds value to the Real Estate assets and that must adapt to the continuous changes demanded by real life.
The pressure on corporate executives to maximize profits in a relatively stagnant economy, generates a demand to look for new ways to contain costs, especially where it is caused outside the day-to-day management, such as energy. For these, Facility Managers should not only focus on how energy prices affect the profitability of their organization, but also how to properly express the savings, benefits and financial values of projects the projects they manage.
In the following article you will find more information about these aspects, and which will most probably generate ideas for presenting FM projects to the financial department.
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