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"Strategies for Successful Facility Succession Planning"
Author: Jack Rubinger
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: January/February 2022

Facilities are in a crisis. Staff reductions due to retirement are straining our collective facility knowledge and impacting our ability to quickly respond to workloads and emergencies. Consider the complexity of a healthcare or school campus with dozens of buildings. How can we expect new hires to be as familiar with these facilities as our most tenured technicians? Because facilities professionals are responsible for safety for buildings and people, when they leave, there’s risk involved. Mitigating the risk is complicated. Creating a holistic approach to facility succession planning, considering building knowledge, lessons learned on the job, and fresh perspectives from new hires to the field is imperative.


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