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Working longer = more productive?
21st of July 2017
Long hours at the grindstone may turn our brains to mush but they can also leave us feeling all warm and virtuous and not a little sniffy about others who appear not to share our work ethic. But for all that, surveys show that we are labouring under an illusion if we believe we are necessarily any more productive, writes Hartley Milner.
The
Norway’s cleaning sector - challenges and opportunities
6th of July 2017
Thor Nielsen is marketing and purchase manager for Insider Facility Services, which operates in 12 cities in Norway. The company specialises in a broad spectrum of services in shopping malls, office buildings, airports and aircraft, and has its own development programme for staff. Nielsen writes about the trends and characteristics of the
Internal talent spotting
4th of July 2017
Morna Metzger of Metzger Search & Selection discusses why it’s important for larger companies to tap into employees’ hidden talents or acumen and help to develop them.
Most people have talents and abilities apart from those revealed in their everyday employment. There’s the office manager who plays in a band at the weekends,
Walking off into the sunset...
9th of June 2017
Thinking about selling your small business and retiring? Well, don’t book that world cruise just yet…there’s much to think about and do before you go sailing off into the sunset, writes Hartley Milner.
You will have put much time, toil and tears into building up your business, so you will expect a handsome payback on your
FM - time to take responsibility (2)
8th of June 2017
In recent years, facility management (FM) has developed into a discipline which is increasingly able to extend its contribution to the valued added chain of business, healthcare, public administration and other sectors. FM is being integrated more and more into the core processes, thereby generating increasing value and no longer representing a
Opportunities for innovation - enter the European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards 2017
31st of May 2017
Sandra Sieber, professor at IESE Business School University of Navarra, writes for ECJ. Sieber was the keynote speaker at the inaugural European Cleaning & Hygiene Awards in Barcelona last September.
If you get some of the leading cleaning companies from across Europe together in a room and ask them about the use of technology in their
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