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The path to digital transformation
7th of February 2023
Europe is quickening its step in a bid to catch up in the global race towards a digital future. Hartley Milner reports on the swathe of actions that could see the region take the lead in the transition while boosting trade opportunities at home and across international markets.
The Path to the Digital Decade is a programme of ambitious targets and
Better learning in clean schools?
23rd of January 2023
John Griep at VSR in the Netherlands, on research into the link between clean schools and learning.
It is the start of a new year and this is traditionally the time for good intentions. Ours are not so different in form (doing research) from previous years; they are different in content, though. Indeed, in 2023, we will be conducting research
The challenges of youth
19th of January 2023
How can the cleaning sector attract more young people? Lynn Webster in the UK takes a look.
We continue to have serious concern about where the next generation of employees will come from - not only cleaning operatives but in the wider context of positions that remain unfilled due to retirement and resignation of vast numbers from many
Let’s talk about the importance of hygiene
18th of January 2023
A.I.S.E. is the umbrella organisation representing the European detergents and maintenance products industry. Aisling O’Kane talks about the importance of hygiene with Thomas Rauch, director of IHO (the German industry association for hygiene and surface disinfection) and chair of A.I.S.E.‘s Professional Cleaning & Hygiene Steering
Why has profit become a dirty word?
5th of January 2023
Why has ‘profit’ become a dirty word? Could it be because the profit motive is all too easily seduced by the lustful influences of ‘greed’ or is that just how we perceive it? Hartley Milner explores our conflicted relationship with monetary gain in the context of the energy crisis.
There is a jolly little game people like to
Report from a Mop Bucket revisited
28th of December 2022
Lotte Printz on a Swedish cleaner and author, Maja Ekelöf, whose biography has just been released.
”Ugh! Most people would probably say when they think about working as a cleaner. It’s a dull word. You can almost sense the smell of dust and dirty water. You also sense the back pains and the chapped hands. This is a low-income
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