Recruiting and retaining people has long been a challenge for both the hospitality and commercial cleaning sectors and as a professional cleaning company that has been providing cleaning services to the hospitality sector for over 25 years, USS experience these challenges too. Both sectors face a number of misconceptions, such as low pay, unsociable hours…
Wednesday was Thank Your Cleaner Day and in addition to thanking all of our staff for their hard work with a letter and card, we asked our managers and clients to nominate who they thought deserved special recognition for going above and beyond. The winners are the following people who will be presented with a…
Just a week to go until this year’s Thank Your Cleaner Day and USS are well underway with our preparations to celebrate the day and the hard work of all of our staff. Thank you cards are being printed, stickers have been ordered and the nominations for our site specific recognition awards are coming in thick…
I am pleased to advise that the CSSA is again partnering Karcher UK with their 2019 THANK YOUR CLEANER DAY and Unique Support Services will be taking part in this event and we hope that you will help us to participate. Now in its 5th year, Thank Your Cleaner Day is a global event…
Recruiting for the cleaning industry has always been more challenging than for most other industries for reasons we all know well including low wages, unsociable hours, lone working and the image the industry has to name but a few and with the uncertainty that Brexit has caused and is still continuing to cause and the weakness of…
In the UK alone there are well over half a million outsourced cleaning operatives almost of whom are working outside of normal office hours at client sites and often alone. They may occasionally see area management but as a norm all communication e.g. pay queries, holiday requests etc. is handled by email or telephone so…
Many cleaners within the cleaning industry are treated well, have their employment rights withheld and enjoy their job but there are unfortunately still some that don’t. It is unfortunate that all too often cleaners are held in low regard despite the vital role they place in business. Remember first impressions count and it is your…
ITV aired the last episode this week of the series Cleaning Up starring Sheridan Smith and whilst we are fans of the actress and watched this fictional series, it did a terrible job of portraying both cleaners themselves and cleaning as a profession. It showed Sheridan Smith’s character fixing a carpet stain using a marker…
Cleaning, especially in public places remains a necessity and is good for business, in fact despite the economic uncertainty that comes with a Deal or No Deal Brexit, the contract cleaning industry is thriving contributing over £24billion to the UK economy. This said, there is still a lot of competition when bidding for new…
Government have recently decided to delay T-Level vocational courses until at least 2020 and a proposal for a Cleaning and Hygiene Operative NVQ Level 2 apprenticeship has also been rejected which means despite a huge challenge within the cleaning industry to close the skills gap, no training based route is available for young people within…