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12th of August 2024 Article by Lotte Printz

A campaign has been launched in Denmark to encourage passengers to show respect for cleaning staff in the Copenhagen Metro. ECJ’s Lotte Printz reports.

At work in the capital recently, I was rather impressed with the cleaning procedures on the Metro. Only minutes after I had entered a carriage where someone had clearly had an accident with a coffee to go, a cleaning operative jumped on..

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AI - should cleaners be worried?

31st of July 2024 Article by John Griep

John Griep at VSR in the Netherlands considers the implications of AI for the cleaning sector.

AI has become the talk of the town nowadays. In the cleaning industry too, many applications are currently being developed to automate certain activities. Do cleaners have to fear for their jobs and livelihoods? At VSR, we don’t think so.

AI works well as a supplement in the..

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Cleaning sector’s climate strategy in Italy

23rd of July 2024 Article by Anna Garbagna

Italy correspondent Anna Garbagna reports on a conference discussing environmental strategies.

Environmental protection is a topic that is becoming increasingly crucial in the management of the economy. In March, the industrial cleaning sector dedicated two days of the H3i HI&I Cleaning Forum event to sustainability, ecodesign, certifications and environmental strategies for the cleaning ..

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Wages and Olympics bring doubt

5th of July 2024 Article by Christian Bouzols

French cleaning firms face uncertainty in 2024 as wages rise and the Olympic Games take place there. Christian Bouzols tells us more.

The year 2023 was an active but quite varied one for French cleaning companies and their clients. The economic background encouraged a high number of takeovers among companies large and small.

According to Patrick Klug, managing director of Entreprises ..

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Cleaners’ podcast enters fourth year

27th of June 2024 Article by Katja Scholz

German contract cleaning association BIV has a new content focus for its podcast, reports Katja Scholz.

Joining in the discussion on sociopolitical questions – that is the challenge for the skilled trades sector with the largest workforce in Germany. The ‘Showpiece’ podcast of the Federal Association of Contract Cleaners (BIV) made its debut in January 2021 and now has more than 30 episodes under its belt follow..

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