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"COVID-19’s Impact on Facilities Cybersecurity"
Author: David Handwork
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: July/August 2020

Preparing for any post-COVID future requires a mindset of flexibility, adaptability, courage to take risks, and knowledge-based wisdom, to be able to develop and “sell” a malleable facilities management (FM) strategic operations plan to administration. The impact that FM has on student and staff recruitment is well understood. Equally understood is FM’s impact on operations budget control, specifically related to capital planning, space management, and stewardship of energy, environmental sustainability, and campus assets. The temptation to heavily leverage the facilities operation budget for university budget reductions will be evident, but senior facilities officers (SFOs) should resist this temptation if at all possible. Even with an uncertain future, one predictable post-COVID outcome is the increased expectation of even more effective and efficient facilities operations.

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