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Planon sponsors white paper on reaping the financial rewards of optimising the workplace

 

Brighton, UK, December 1, 2011  – Finance Directors must start listening to their facilities managers or continue missing out on the valuable opportunity to streamline occupancy costs, explains a new research paper sponsored by Planon Software.

 

In his white paper, The Workplace Optimisation Opportunity, Martin Pickard explains occupancy costs are not as fixed as Finance Directors believe. By moving towards more flexible work environments, such as ‘hot desking’ or ‘hotelling’, companies stand to save millions of pounds while also boosting employee morale.

 

“More traditional organisations that previously rejected such strategies as ‘too radical’ are reconsidering their decisions in the new economic climate,” says Pickard, Principal of The FM Guru Consultancy.

 

The white paper, sponsored by Planon Software, finds that FM service providers, armed with vital data, are ideally positioned to proactively analyse workplace environments and present cost saving opportunities to their clients.

 

The research paper succinctly defines the possibilities, as well as showcasing the central role Integrated FM Software Solutions play in optimising the workplace, says Pierre Guelen, Planon Software’s founder and CEO.

 

“Today’s facilities management technology can provide decision makers with all the information they need to make informed investments that greatly trim operating costs. Senior executives need to start paying attention, or they may find their position untenable.”

 

Key findings from the paper include:

 

- Workstation utilisation rates can run as low at 40 per cent

- Even partial conversion to flexible workstations can save companies significant operating costs

- Empowering employees with choice and flexibility boosts morale

- All facilities networks, including building management and security systems, should be integrated in order to collectively analyse the available data

- Facilities managers need to be at all workplace planning meetings, including the design stage

 

 

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Planon Software is one of world’s leading providers of integrated real-estate and facilities management software. Consistently named as a ‘leader’ in Gartner’s magic quadrant, we help our clients solve their Facility Management and Real Estate challenges with sustainable software solutions that improve their profitability through a clear and definable Return on Investment approach. 

 

The Planon series of solutions include Facility and Space Management, Maintenance Management, Services Management and Real Estate Portfolio Management.  Started in the Netherlands in 1982, Planon is now a leading global software company with over 1,800 clients and 2 million users. www.planonsoftware.com

 

Number of Clients: 1,800

Number of Users: 2 million

Number of Countries where Planon operates:  20

 

 

Martin Pickard is the Principal of The FM Guru Consultancy and an award winning consultant, journalist and trainer, Martinis a facilities management professional with 40 years experience in all aspects of property and business services provision. His career includes a variety of corporate property, project and facilities roles in the UK including long periods with BT and with Cellnet. He has also held boardroom positions with a number of FM consultancies and contracting organisations working all over the world for major customers from both public and private sectors. He now operates a portfolio of business interests in FM training and consultancy and interiors.

 

Martin is a Past President of the IFMA UK Chapter and a Fellow of the BIFM and was twice winner of their Award for Excellence in FM Journalism. Known to many as The FM Guru, Martin is a regular contributor to several business magazines and speaks at conferences and seminars all over the world. In 2008 he was named as one of the 20 FM Pioneers who made the most impact on the development of FM over the last thirty years.