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Client relationships - setting new standards
28th of September 2021
Zac Hemming, founding director of ICE Cleaning, explores how cleaning being accelerated to the top of the corporate agenda during the pandemic is presenting commercial contractors with a responsibility and opportunity to push the boundaries of what is expected, and what can be achieved, by daily cleaning routines.
Over the last year, the impact
Work-life balance: the era of the four-day week?
6th of August 2021
Are we seeing the work-life scales finally balancing up … or even tipping in favour of employees? Hartley Milner reports on how the Covid emergency is helping bring about probably the most radical transformation of our working lives in generations.
During the lockdowns, millions of people worldwide had their first taste of routinely working
One step further towards quality-based procurement
3rd of August 2021
Public procurement is one of the key areas of activities for EFCI and the organisation feels there is a real need for public authorities to better promote efficient, fair and transparent competition. So it has developed a set of specific recommendations.
Public procurement is one of the focuses of advocacy work for the EFCI. Indeed, our sector
How do we make home working secure?
8th of June 2021
The Covid vaccines rollout gives us hope for a strong global economic recovery following the pandemic … but will do nothing to rid the world of another toxic menace that has fed on people’s fears over the past year, writes Hartley Milner.
Fraudsters will have rubbed their hands with greedy anticipation when the world locked down early
EFCI news - challenges and opportunities in the post-Covid world
27th of May 2021
Just over a year after the world first faced the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic, EFCI president Juan Díez de los Ríos looks back at the lessons learned by the professional cleaning sector during these most challenging of times. He also looks ahead to possible future opportunities.
A bit more than a year after the beginning of this
Sustainability - the other two pillars
26th of April 2021
Arguments around sustainability have been heavily focused on saving the planet over the past few years. But have those other two pillars of sustainability –people and profit – gained new prominence in the light of the global pandemic, asks Ann Laffeaty?
Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion have recently brought the topic of
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