Generation “Z” is entering the labour market, including the facility management and workspace sectors, with new ideas and opportunities.
This is good news because these sectors seem to be stagnating a bit in terms of ideas, creativity, and execution. Is it the pandemic, the economy or simply training that is holding back new ways of thinking in these areas?
Facility management and workspaces cannot reinvent themselves every day and change what makes them strong.
Nevertheless, we can see that many companies, suppliers, and customers, are happy with the current situation. However, to put it mildly, the world is going through a new revolution with the massive use of artificial intelligence, digitalisation, the transformation of the professional landscape in all areas and the global challenges that are emerging such as the energy transition.
Generation “Z” will certainly have many and varied challenges like all those that preceded it, but the opportunities are many.
However, the current management of companies will have to seize these chances by giving new responsibilities to this generation, which is much more creative, more spontaneous, perhaps less reasoned, but who cares, because it brings a new freshness.
Facility management must reinvent itself with new forms of collaboration and new services or products. To be frank, replacing a surface technician with a robot is not the way to enter the new world: it will take a lot more.
The new generation certainly has some great propositions to implement. The same is true of workplaces.
While the pandemic has had devastating human, social and economic effects, it has also had the effect of accelerating some paradigm shifts. This is all to the good for the new generation, who can continue this ‘unintended work’ with great initiatives.
It will take all the intelligence of the various generations to reactivate the necessary changes in the fields of facility management and workspaces. Let us hope that success will come with the inevitable adjustments in the beginning.
Good luck, good thoughts.