BD will soon be adopting a model of facilities management similar to the one soon to be integrated into Lowes. That model will result in thousands being laid off at Lowe’s. Permanent reductions to increase the bottom line. Maryland will be the first target for this new model and will be expanded everywhere. An outsourced third party with highly advanced protocols and process applications congruent with pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities in every component is already in motion. If you are in Facilities Management in BD Maryland start making plans to move out and move on. Having seen the plans-this is going to happen by January 2020.
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Kurt, I hope you remember your opinion when you are the older one.
Federal deregulation huh? Since when was it ever a law that you can’t outsource a job function (non military)?? Try being a highly educated engineer that spent 6+ years and tens of thousands on graduate school to have your job shipped to India. Not a good thing at all for either of us - but to act like this is due to some recent change in Washington is crazy.
Facilities Management in all operations in MD, including Life Sciences should be ready to move on, particularly if you are salaried. Hourly people will be integrated into outsourced operations. This is in part to increased federal deregulation enabling enhancing revenue by outsourcing facilities management operations. It is a new corporate strategy and the outsourcing firm has developed a niche approach to pharmaceuticals facilities management. If you are salaried Facilities Management in MD, get ready to go. The normalcy you feel is the calm before the storm. People have said MD will be the first of many rollouts of Facilities Management outsourcing to come.
It's always a positive for the company until it's your position Kurt.
Outsourcing facilities, all of it will be a good thing. It will make the other areas who actually work more secure. The facilities outsourcing company Maryland is going to use will pay more for the younger folks and the older ones will just be given severance and a slimmer retirement. Any salaried facilities staff will definitely be seen as unnecessary fat needing to be cut out.
To add to my post below, when I said they they were all immediately hired by JLL, it was for the Bard job that they previously had. All JLL employees are still doing the same jobs that they had when they worked for Bard. Nothing changed with their actual job or duties.
Our plant has all ready outsourced our facility management group to JLL. All employees that were in facility management, including the front desk receptionist, were hired by JLL. No one lost there jobs. They were all terminated from BD (ex bard) and received a severance package. They were then immediately hired by JLL. Some even received a raise and they have a better health insurance plan than we do. Most say they are making out better with the new company.
The down fall off course is that some were long time employees of Bard and had a great pension that will no longer be contribute to.
You are right on in your post. Here in Covington a source trustworthy and in the know revealed that personnel from Maryland who were in Georgia recently are going to among the first members to be cut from Facilities Management. The worst thing is that they don't even know what is coming soon. I am glad I am out in a few weeks. If you are in MD and do ANYTHING with Facilities get out now if you can. Stop working to impress people who pretend you are appreciated. To top it off, BD is looking at MD for its pilot run of outsourcing nearly all of facilities management and will get the benefits of deregulation underway by the federal government and the capacity to assign management of risk and reap tax advantages by showing the ability to cut BD jobs has enabled corporate economic benefits due to deregulation. I love Trump but this is one that is going to sting alot of good BD people in the toosh. While cuts in BD Facilities Management Maryland are definitely going to happen do yourself a service by preparing for what is coming.