Many of your competitors, clients, and business partners have outsourced their building’s maintenance. Are you considering following in their footsteps? Outsourcing has become a popular solution for business and building owners to free up time, control costs, ensure a more efficient work environment, and make a better impression on their clients and partners. 

Of course, not everything about outsourcing is sunshine and rainbows, and, from a certain point of view, in-house services may still be a viable choice. The best way to make an informed decision is to carefully weigh the pros and cons. 

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Main Advantages of Outsourcing Building Maintenance

• Savings: An outsourced solution is usually much more economically viable than paying staff wages and benefits or buying specific equipment, tools and supplies. 

• Qualified, experienced and reliable staff and high-quality services: Professional companies carefully screen their employees, check their qualifications, professional background, police records and references, and put them through continuous training. You’re more than likely to have a much more qualified person on the job that your HR department didn’t have to screen through the process.

• Less hassle: Personnel recruitment, training, monitoring, satisfaction, disciplinary measures, payrolls, time-keeping, work health and safety issues, and more become the responsibility of the company you outsource to.

• Better tools, equipment, and technology: As a building owner, you would surely limit your investment in this field to the minimum required, but the company you outsource to will rely on professional, high-performance equipment to provide fast, efficient, and consistent services.

• Improved focus: No longer having to worry about building maintenance will let you focus on more important aspects of building management and client retention, while the company you outsource to will have one main concern – your and your tenant’s satisfaction.