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The challenges of youth
20th of December 2022 Article by Lynn Webster
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 industries.
Following up on other articles on the issue of recruitment, many of our ass..
Report from a Mop Bucket revisited
13th of December 2022 Article by Lotte Printz
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 job. All hard manual labour is, I suppose. You don’t think you need education ..
An everyday cleaning case study
5th of December 2022 Article by Katja Scholz
Katja Scholz in Germany brings us a cleaning case study from her recent visit to an alpaca farm.
During an extended trip this summer, I came across an alpaca farm. It had rained very hard that day, so I sat with a coffee in the comfortable farm shop and looked out at the almost 60-strong herd of alpacas which had found their home here. The farm shop with café attached is located in a converted barn.
In the roughly ..
Lack of enthusiasm for daytime cleaning
22nd of November 2022 Article by Christian Bouzols
Christian Bouzols in France explains that some commercial clients are not a fan of daytime cleaning.
Marie-Laure Léau runs a cleaning company, Segid, in Hérouville-Saint-Clair, a town situated near Caen in Normandy. Its more than 300 industrial cleaners of both sexes would ideally like to work during normal daytime hours and not to have to work at the crack of dawn or late at night. They see this as a priority, but ..
Generating your own energy
14th of November 2022 Article by John Griep
John Griep at VSR in the Netherlands reports on a meeting discussing climate and energy transition.
As a platform and knowledge institution for the professional cleaning sector, VSR organised an event on Climate and Energy Transition recently.
The urgency of the energy transition, which needs to take place on a massive scale, is finally dawning on most people. This is also true for Milan and Patrick van der Meulen, both b..
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