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Keeping the Future Clean:
Top Advancements in
Janitorial Technology
With the ever-evolving threat
of the pandemic, very few of
us can claim any longer that
janitorial work is unimportant.
While the general cultural perception
of janitorial work is still very dismissive,
figuring it to be a low-paying, low-effort job
for people with few ambitions, janitorial work
is in truth essential to every single industry
those same people patronize daily.
Even before we were all deathly afraid
of a rapidly spreading respiratory virus,
janitorial work was the unsung foundation of
a number of industries, maintaining positive
perceptions of the company through general
cleaning and maintenance, upholding
health and safety standards, and cleaning
up after careless customers. While janitorial
workers are currently hard to find, as a direct
result of a lack of thoughtfulness on the part
of employers and low wages, a company
with a skilled janitorial staff is likely to find
that the efficacy of other functions steadily
increases.
Yet, even as the pandemic continues to
surge and new variants begin to come out
of the woodwork, the number of janitors
employed at corporations and cleaning
companies continues to decrease. Despite
the claimed ignorance of business leaders,
the reasons are simple and easy to detect:
not enough pay, not enough respect, and not
having the tools to do their jobs efficiently in
such a dangerous environment. The latter
very much bleeds into the former two, as not
investing in tools that will make janitorial work
easier tends to subtly communicate to those
workers that their role is not that important.
If you’re looking to lure janitorial workers back
into the fold, you may want to consider investing
in top-of-the-line janitorial tech that will help
them do their work safely in these trying times.
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