Facility managers groan over clients’ debts as COVID- 19 impacts sector

machine, especially in hospitality business, where robots are being considered to supply things to people.

Apart from, the impact on finance as people does not want to pay service charge, Mr. Lekan Akinwunmi, owner of Dove Estates and Associates, said the COVID - 19 pandemic places on facility managers, the challenge of maintaining social distance.

According to him, ever ybody is complaining but as facility manager, you just have to be creative in how safety measures like washing of hands, sanitisers , control the number of people you have at a particular place.

Definitely, he said, this going to jerk up your budget for the year and moreover, even the budget of the year, many of the tenants are finding it difficult to pay. Another facility manager and senior Project Manager – Deltaafrik Engineering Limited, Mutiu Balogun, said many of their services have to stop because clients are not paying for the services and if there is no money there will be no services.

Streamlining those paying and those not paying, he said, is a challenge. “People must have reserves to run their services in where they are living or doing business or the services will stopped. For those paying, it will not be right to deprive them of the services but it must run.

The inability of clients to pay for services as a result of downturns in finance occasioned by the COVID- 19 pandemic has impacted negatively on the practice of facility management.