JanSan 2011: By: Aaron Baunee, managing editor A Year In Review Cleaning the air of what was the tenth year of the twenty-first century. Aaron Baunee is the managing editor of Cleaning & Maintenance Management magazine. He can be reached at ABaunee@NTPMedia. com. In his years with the pub-lication, Baunee has amassed numerous articles, columns and commentaries pertaining to commercial cleaning and mainte-nance. Baunee encourages readers to communicate editorial ideas to him and welcomes discussions on pertinent industry happenings. Connect through social media: LinkedIn.com/in/AaronBaunee, Facebook.com/CMMOnline and Twitter.com/CMeNewsDaily. A A year is a long time — 365 days to be exact — and, in that amount of time, it is easy to lose sight of overall trends and general developments that can shape the industry and its supporters for years to come. We are all familiar with the axiom that “hindsight is 20/20.” As such, this serves as a retrospective to deter-mine the most important happenings from the past calendar year. for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: Trends . For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select SUPPLIER SEARCH from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: Cleaning . Cost Cutting In the JanSan industry, price has always been king. Sure, many respect value and performance, but it all still comes down to dollars and cents. Especially in this uncertain economy, many are price shopping. But, aside from procuring inexpensive prod-ucts, there are many ways people in our industry are saving money. One way we have seen many facilities saving operational expenses — this has been happening with increased frequency, especially over the past year — is to outsource or privatize their in-house operations. By selecting an outside contractor to perform custodial, maintenance, security and various other tasks, these businesses and organizations are able to extensively reduce or altogether eliminate employee salaries and various benefits. Depending on your perspective, whether a build-ing service contractor (BSC) or an in-house profes-sional, outsourcing can be either great or terrible. For more on the topic of privatization, check out the cover story from the August 2011 issue of Cleaning & Maintenance Management magazine. Another major development in terms of cost cutting is consolidation. As was reported in the CM e-News Daily , some school districts and municipalities have pooled their collective resources and combined their 14 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • December 2011
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