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Europe’s demographic conundrum
24th of August 2023
A demographic time bomb is ticking down across Europe. Longer life expectancy and falling birth rates are projected to cause widespread labour shortages in the not too distant future, with dire outcomes for the region’s economies, reports Hartley Milner.
THRUST DEFIANTLY skywards, a protester’s placard evokes a bloody episode from
Robotics - time for real industry change
21st of August 2023
Labour shortages on the one hand, high pressure on costs and margins on the other. Faced with a wide range of challenges, the commercial cleaning industry needs new innovative approaches. One solution is the deployment of robots in a holistic cobotic system solution says autonomous vacuum cleaner specialist Dr Henning Hayn, general manager of
The robot co-operative
17th of August 2023
How happy are cleaning staff about using robot assistants? ECJ looks at the human-robot relationship and asks manufacturers and cleaning companies how they can help to improve it.
THE ROBOTS ARE COMING. And human cleaners are increasingly having to learn to work alongside them. But do they appreciate the labour-saving potential that cleaning
The rise of Artificial Intelligence
1st of June 2023
Artificial intelligence has transformed our lives in ways that were the stuff of science fiction not so long ago and its influences are set only to proliferate over coming decades. Hartley Milner examines the impact of AI on the business world, for better or worse.
How would you feel about interacting face-to-face with a computer-generated
ECJ celebrates 30 years as only pan-European cleaning magazine
22nd of May 2023
The first edition of European Cleaning Journal (ECJ) was published in March 1993, just as trade barriers across Europe were coming down and the possibilities for business expansion and greater co-operation between the countries of Europe grew.
Founding editor Michelle Marshall is still the editor of ECJ today and she takes a look back at the
Brexit - fresh uncertainty for UK firms
20th of April 2023
Swathes of EU-derived legislation look set to be scrapped in the UK by the end of 2023 in a government drive to ‘get Brexit done’ once and for all. But opponents of the move fear vital citizen rights and safeguards could be stripped away in the haste to push the reforms through, Hartley Milner reports.
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