Facility managers are familiar with the stereotype: “overhead,” “necessary evil,” the department that only gets attention when something break. During his session at NFMT Remix in Orlando, John Rimer layouts out a blunt reality: millions of open jobs, a shrinking pipeline and a coming wave of retirements will hit the industry especially hard. The result is a hiring market where candidates can disappear between offer acceptance and Monday morning, wages climb and every FM team is fishing from the same shallow pool.
