Home › magazine › latest news
Cleaning staff facing ‘burnout’ due to severe staff shortages
11th of January 2022
Industry leaders have warned that cleaning staff in healthcare, hospitality and other parts of the sector are facing burnout because of increased workloads due to the Covid-19 pandemic and severe staff shortages.
The extra procedures and protocols put in place during the pandemic to protect people's health along with the current severe staff
Hectas Group acquired by Vebego
10th of January 2022
Dutch facilities management group Vebego has acquired hectas group, based in Germany - which also provides facility services. "Vebego's aim is to join with the hectas group in expanding activities in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands," explained Giuseppe Santagarda, Vebego Group ceo.
"In accordance with this, all contracts of employment and
Hand hygiene - a changing landscape
7th of January 2022
Chris Wakefield, managing director UK & Ireland for GOJO Industries-Europe, discusses the effects of the pandemic on the hand hygiene industry and how to maintain compliance in a sea of coronavirus fatigue.
We are emerging from the most tumultuous of times; a period which has particularly tested – and continues to challenge – the
Woman isolates in aircraft washroom after testing positive mid-flight
6th of January 2022
A US schoolteacher spent five hours self-isolating in an aircraft toilet after testing positive for Covid-19 on board.
Marisa Fotieo had twice tested negative before boarding her pre-Christmas flight from Chicago to Reykjavik. But when she developed a sore throat during the journey, she headed for the toilet to take a third test.
When this
Cleaning is now out of the shadows in Russia
5th of January 2022
Oleg Popov of Cristanval, a cleaning company in Russia, explains how the professional cleaning sector there was in the shadows where taxation was concerned until recently. This has now changed.
The cleaning sector has been developing in Russia since the late 1990s. Until 2018, it was one of the most opaque industries. Therefore, the tax
Revisiting the new normal
4th of January 2022
Lynn Webster in the UK reviews the year that’s passed and asked what we have learned.
As we come to the end of another very different, if rather strange year there is time to reflect. Most of us have suffered in some way or another personally, professionally or in loss of business; often outcomes too difficult to contemplate. But are there
RSS