{"id":1852,"date":"2022-01-12T08:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T08:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2022-01-12T08:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T08:27:42","slug":"office-based-european-corporations-saw-no-meaningful-cost-savings-despite-homeworking-36153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/office-based-european-corporations-saw-no-meaningful-cost-savings-despite-homeworking-36153\/","title":{"rendered":"Office-based European corporations saw no meaningful cost savings despite homeworking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Costs predominantly the same for office operations, despite the majority of workforce being home-based during the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite almost all European office employees working from home last year the empty workplaces did not lead to a reduction in the expenditure that companies had to fulfil had the workforce been in the office. The average costs per FTE fell by only 2% and amounted to \u20ac9,468. These findings have been published by Colliers, Occupier Cost Index (OCI), which comprises data from 29 countries, 3,990 buildings, 26.1 million square meters of office space and 1.96 million FTEs.<\/p>\n

The importance of facility management and the utilisation of office space became the subject of discussion during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The working environment was adapted to the new situation through minor alterations, but larger investments into building design and the working environment were postponed until the utilisation of the office environment was better understood post pandemic,” said co-author of the report, Denise Hoogendoorn<\/strong>, Head of FM Consultancy in the Netherlands at Colliers.As a consequence of the pandemic office services were modified to reflect the low occupancy rate, but some existing contracts were not possible to alter, such as a company restaurant, according to Hoogendoorn<\/strong>, “Only variable costs such as meeting services were discontinued, but this outlay was partly replaced by the higher costs incurred for the establishment of home workplaces or extra cleaning of the office. This demonstrates the inflexibility of some facility management contracts.”<\/p>\n

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