To mark Living Wage Week, the British Cleaning Council (BCC) has renewed its call to Government for cleaning and hygiene sector businesses and organisations to consider becoming real Living Wage Employers.
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If your cleaning business is still relying on spreadsheets and paper timesheets to record and manage your employees’ time, activities, skills and costs, you won’t be as efficient or accurate when it comes to processing time and attendance data through to payroll execution. Often, organisations using more traditional, manual T&A methods will have experienced timesheet fraud and inaccuracies which will have a negative impact on an already stretched bottom-line.
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The UK cleaning industry contributes £58.9billion* to the UK economy every year and continues to grow year on year. The number of people employed in the cleaning, hygiene and waste sector in 2021 was approximately five per cent of the UK workforce.
Since Covid, demand now leans heavily on deep cleans and touch point cleaning, which often will require more targeted resourcing.
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The rising cost of living is affecting everyone. From the energy price hikes to the rate of inflation affecting everyday purchases, we are all feeling the pinch as we try and navigate our way through the cold winter months. If you’re an employer, have you considered how best to support your workforce during these difficult times?
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By streamlining payroll processes and adopting intuitive cloud-based management technology in your FM or cleaning company can be a two-fold initiative; meaning both the employer and the worker get to realise the benefits. With many systems already under pressure, payroll is a drain on administration and often takes several days to complete.
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Employers have a duty of care to ensure their cleaning staff are kept safe whilst working their shifts. This could include planned supervisor visits to observe staff that are working alone or agreed contact calls between the lone worker and the supervisor. However, in situations where the employer is managing large teams of remote or dispersed workers, visits and calls may not be an efficient way to monitor the whereabouts of individuals. A robust system needs to be implemented to ensure that the cleaning operative has clocked in and out of their designated location at the expected times.
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Your workforce is your greatest asset but also your largest overhead. Managing a large, dispersed workforce can be a huge challenge, with customers now requiring more robust service level agreements and evidencing service delivery. Knowing your staff are on-site as planned can be critical.
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If your cleaning or FM business was ready to grasp and scale technology to navigate your way out of covid, then you will already be adapting to the many changing requirements when it comes to the role of commercial cleaning.
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Your workforce is your greatest asset but also your largest overhead. Managing a large, dispersed workforce can be a huge challenge, with customers now requiring more robust service level agreements and evidencing service delivery. Knowing your staff are on-site as planned can be critical.
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- ERP
Workforce management technology is an umbrella term for the devices, apps, software and systems that help a business manage staff scheduling, task monitoring, track and monitor time and attendance and provide management information.
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