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Chinese city to promote 'toilet chiefs' for better management
11th of January 2017
The Chinese city of Xi'an, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country, is to appoint "toilet chiefs" this year, the city tourism bureau has announced.
The city aims to ensure all public toilets and those in restaurants and entertainment venues meet national standards in terms of sufficient numbers and cleanliness.
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Experts scoff at schools’ ban of toilet roll cores
10th of January 2017
Pupils of UK schools are being prevented from bringing in cardboard toilet roll cores due to fears that they could spread disease.
Teachers have alerted parents to the ban quoting alleged health and safety guidelines. However, government officials have denounced these as an "urban myth".
Parents at one nursery school in County Durham were told
Spanish law voids Court of Auditors and Madrid Education cleaning tender competitions because of below-cost pricing
9th of January 2017
The courts in Spain have ruled that both the Board of Education of the Community of Madrid and the Court of Auditors rerun the public tender competitions for the award of the cleaning services in their respective buildings because they were put out to tender at less than cost.
The Professional Association of Cleaning Companies (Aspel) brought
The robot vacuum cleaner that can be controlled using Amazon’s Alexa
6th of January 2017
An automatic vacuum cleaner for people who like to bark out orders to their appliances has been presented to visitors at this year's CES technology show in Las Vegas.
Samsung's Powerbot VR7000 can be linked with Amazon's Echo Support technology to enable it to be activated via voice controls.
Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker that features a
Main reasons why employees are not engaged in their work and what you can do about it
5th of January 2017
The world is currently experiencing an employee engagement crisis and recent data suggests that only 13 per cent of employees worldwide are engaged in their work. But why are employees not engaged and what can facility managers do about it? Peter Ankerstjerne, ISS head of group marketing, writes his latest ECJ blog.
ISS Netherlands joins partnership to strengthen integration and employment of refugees
4th of January 2017
ISS Netherlands has partnered with the Refugee Talent Hub - a non-profit effort led by ISS customer Accenture along with other corporations, public agencies, and NGOs - to support and accelerate the acceptance, integration, education and employment of refugees in the Netherlands.
The first traineeships and full positions at ISS were launched on
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