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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
How to set your janitors up for success
Janitors are often the behind-the-scenes heroes of facility maintenance, keeping everything clean, stocked, and sanitized. They support health and safety and hygiene and they’re often
REMI Network
Inflation and wage increases are twin problems for companies
Inflation, in combination with tight labour markets, is compounding the rising wages in the frontline service workforce.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Looking to hire workers? Meet them with money
Two-thirds of U.S. adults would prefer a 10 per cent pay increase over an additional week of paid time off.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Toronto janitors & cleaners receive pay rise
Thousands of cleaners are campaigning to get a fair contract and a higher wage amid soaring cost of living.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ottawa protests stripping janitors of work and pay
"Be good corporate citizens; show you respect Ottawa’s janitors and pay lost wages," pleads a union and advocacy statement.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Appealing to millennial workers in the 2020s
Knowing how to cater to the needs of all ages of employees is key to a cleaning or restoration company's success.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
B.C. begins bringing hospital staffing back in-house
B.C. says the move is an attempt to improve wages and work environments and make frontline work more desirable.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Keeping cleaning workers happy and motivated
Like so many industries, many building service and cleaning contractors have reported recent difficulties in finding new workers.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
The great cleaning jobs reassessment
The hunt for trained workers to fill vacant cleaning jobs is proving difficult for many companies as the effects of COVID-19 continue.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Hotels considering cutting housekeeping staff
Hotels are considering cutting back on services like daily room cleaning as they struggle to hire back a large enough proportion of their pre-COVID-19 workforce.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Demand for cleaning and maintenance jobs soars
There have been huge increases in listings for U.S. cleaning and maintenance jobs looking for janitorial and other maintenance staff in recent weeks, according to
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Hospital housekeepers feel underappreciated during pandemic
A recent study suggests that hospital housekeepers and environmental service staff have low self-esteem in their jobs.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Washington, D.C. law reinstates pandemic-hit workers
A law set to take effect later this month or in March will reinstate displaced local workers as their former positions begin to become available again.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Virginia introduces America’s first permanent workplace virus rule
Virginia, the first state to introduce a temporary workplace virus measure last year, has voted to enact a permanent ruling.
REMI Network
The importance of indoor air quality for productive workers
In the 1700s, Ben Franklin said, “I am persuaded that no common air from outside is so unwholesome as the air inside a closed room
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Green buildings contribute to productivity: research
Recent research from the National Research Council of Canada and RBC found that green buildings have a positive impact on productivity for employees.
