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          Trends 2024

          Challenges & Opportunities for

          the FM Service Sector




          Leading service providers share their thoughts on the steps

          to stay ahead through a proactive and adaptive mindset. The
          major shifts encompassing the role of FM services in 2024

          will brace challenges anticipating shifts to meet changing
          requirements.




          Sustainability: No more a Choice


          Rajesh Shetty, Managing                             What challenges do you foresee in
          Director, Real Estate                               meeting your services requirements

          Management Services,                                of facilities management specific to
                                                              2024?
          Colliers India takes stock of                         The advancement in technology and equally

          the present challenges facing                       its on-ground adoption in the FM space in India
          facilities management and                           has been overwhelming post Covid. This has
                                                              helped better coordination, logistics support
          the deployment of newer                             paving way for ease of operations and remote

          technologies as the way                             monitoring, further on adding more credibility
                                                              to completion of complex on-ground tasks.
          forward.                                            However, the large IT organizations have not
                                                              seen encouraging responses, specifically to their
                                                              demands on the return to work, and at the same
                                                              time the comprehension of service requirement
                                                              in the hybrid operating environment having not
                                                              stabilized or matured fully, the overall ability
                                                              to enhance or fully optimize the workforce
                                                              productivity continues to pose its own challenges.
                                                                Compounding to that, with the inconsistent
                                                              & unpredictable distribution of work volumes
                                                              through the week, especially owing to various
                                                              interruption with intermittent celebrations, FM
                                                              continues to experience the work scheduling
                                                              challenges, not only on the rationalization of
                                                              the human resources capital but also on the
                                                              diligent consumption of the projected essential
                                                              supplies. These challenges are also restricting
                                                              the organization on their ability to deploy more
                                                              scalable and robust technology, limiting their
                                                              opportunity on further amplifying the user
                                                              experience.


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