​Growth within the market for outsourced integrated services and TFM in health and education has therefore been on the modest side. In 2017, the market was estimated to be worth £3.2bn - around 2% lower than in the previous year. FM market growth has also been hampered by a decline in the number of large-scale projects undertaken.

‘While it appears that most of Carillion’s loss-making contracts were not FM contracts, the company’s collapse has highlighted the problems which very low margins and outsourcing to a small number of large contractors can cause.’

The government is gearing up to launch a £12bn tender for cleaning and FM services at schools, hospitals and in other public buildings, in the wake of Carillion's collapse, and as part of their aim to give a third of public sector workers to SMEs by 2020. SMEs within the FM sector will hugely benefit from using remote workforce management software when it comes to tendering to win more of these public sector contracts.

A review of the available accounts for 22 facilities management firms with operations in the UK, revealed that the average (EBITDA) margins has remained stagnant at around 7% during the last three years. In comparison, revenues grew at an average of 14% from last year.

We’re happy to announce that hear at Ezitracker, we’ve added yet another valuable tool to our belt. EziText provides a new way for staff to log their personal time and attendance using a mobile phone.

The Tomorrow’s Health & Safety Awards Guide has been published and the public vote is now open.

Following on from a successful year in 2017, we decided to start 2018 as we mean to go on by launching payroll automation tool EziBudget.

The bigger cleaning contractors employ large numbers of site-based workers – sometimes thousands of remote working staff. Nowadays they have a need to provide proof of service provision to their own clients. There is a need for attendance verification and actual evidence of time spent at a client’s premises providing contracted cleaning services.