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solutions can therefore play a crucial role in building that confi dence and trust.
Clear, comprehensive cleaning regimes First, with people more aware of the cleanliness of their surroundings in the post-COVID landscape, making your cleaning regimes as effective as possible will build confi dence across your organisation.
As standards rise and checks tighten, no stone need be left unturned. Cleaning can be thorough and visible to the wider populace, so people are reassured that their workplace is offering as safe a space as possible.
“Cleaning can be thorough and visible to the wider populace, so people are reassured that their workplace is offering as safe a space as possible.”
CAFM software can make this comprehensiveness possible. For instance, a dedicated Cleaning App maintains an accurate, complete audit trail of every area that was cleaned throughout the day and at what times, saved directly into the CAFM solution. Managers can check these at any time to ensure tasks are being fulfi lled as expected.
Plus, it is important that both cleaners and staff are kept safe from areas becoming too densely populated, because despite buildings now reopening, COVID is still with us. CAFM technology can generate clear routes for cleaners to use throughout the day that will minimise the risk of over-crowding during their patrols.
Successful space management On the subject of crowding, FM teams will need to think carefully about the available space within their building, and how it can accommodate employees, residents, visitors and more in a safe, socially-distanced way.
Again, CAFM can make a massive difference to space management. From greatly reducing the chances of overcrowding at lifts, stairwells and other communal areas, to strategically spreading out the availability of rooms so they can comfortably contain set numbers of people for meetings and other activities, this software can capably organise workplaces with enhanced effi ciency.
Whether there’s a greater degree of remote working, or staggered business hours to manage numbers in a building at any given time, space management will need to be more fl uid than in prior years. Again, by consistently capturing spatial data throughout facilities, CAFM makes
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this more manageable and likely to succeed, again building peoples’ confi dence.
Connecting employees to their FM teams Another key to breeding confi dence in employees returning to the workplace will be in creating a direct connection between themselves and FM professionals.
If something is causing personnel discomfort, be it an area that needs to be cleaned, or poor air quality in a room, the FM team can provide an app to all employees that empowers them to create tasks to be picked up by the FM team, with the task’s urgency rising as more people notice and report the problem.
This direct route for the workforce to those who can actively resolve their problems will reassure them that their needs are being looked after at work. They are given an active role in ensuring the entire building and its occupants are looked after, which will help everyone through the process of becoming accustomed once more to their workplace.
Benefi tting from IoT Finally, sensor technology once considered as a non- essential expense pre-pandemic will undoubtedly become more sought-after in future.
By connecting these to CAFM technology, FMs can start to manage workspaces based on occupancy levels – lighting, heating, ventilation and more can be controlled automatically or remotely to again reduce the number of persons that need to be on-site at any given time.
Harnessing IoT and the boundless data generated by business systems, this information can help FMs drive decisions to optimise their workspace, not only making it safer and more reassuring, but also more effi cient and productive.
“Space management will need to be more fl uid than in prior years.”
Adoption of CAFM solutions accelerated notably during these diffi cult months to meet the challenges presented by remote and fl exible working. As businesses now face the reality of returning to normality, we can only envisage this trend continuing to make sure employees are reassured at all times back in the workplace.
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