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Advantages of a clean workplace
29th of March 2019
A French cleaning company has carried out a survey to determine just how important a clean workplace is among workers - writes Christian Bouzols.
Enjoying a clean environment in their daily home and working lives is a fundamental issue for the French. But is doesn’t mean that the matter is much talked about in public debates. That’s
Resolution, reflection, evolution
28th of March 2019
UK reporter Lynn Webster starts the year inviting us to give some thought to our direction for 2019.
Starting the new year, we all set our sights on changing the world or at least our own world. It may have just been the usual pointers of an improved healthy lifestyle; more or starting visits to the
gym, better diet or less alcohol (who survived
Spring cleaning at 3,000 metres
27th of March 2019
Alexandra Lachner reports from Zugspitze, Germany’s highest mountain and popular ski resort.
Nine mountain railways and ski lifts, 20 kilometres of pistes, a passenger carrying capacity of 9,040 people per hour and around 250,000 visitors in the winter season: this is the Zugspitze ski resort in numbers.
As ski resort manager Manfred
Labelling lower wages
27th of March 2019
With International Women’s Day taking place recently, Scandinavian correspondent Lotte Printz brings this, perhaps inspirational?, story from Sweden.
What happens to a female-dominated business if the wages equal men’s?” That is the question Linda Amiri and Sofia Jensfelt asked themselves when setting up 50-femme: “A
Professional cleaning saves lives
26th of March 2019
Antibiotic resistance has been a growing problem for years and infection prevention in hospitals needs to be improved, writes Dutch correspondent John Griep of VSR. That includes better training in cleaning.
Professional checklists instead of individual scraps of paper, and better training in cleaning. These are just a few of the improvements
New EFCI director aims to raise cleaning sector profile in Europe
26th of March 2019
Isabel Yglesias was appointed the new director of EFCI, the organisation representing the cleaning and facilities services sector across Europe, in summer 2018. She speaks to ECJ editor Michelle Marshall about its relaunch and ongoing projects for 2019.
Isabel Yglesias is a Spanish lawyer who worked in the private sector for 10 years before
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