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Squeeze, Incoming?
The current set of circumstances – inflation, a chronic labour shortage, economic gloom, and concerns about social value and environmental…
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Going ‘Beyond Cleaning’ with Our ESG Strategy
Beyond Cleaning is our sustainability strategy that will enable us to realise our vision. We have set ourselves bold and…
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Recruitment – There’s Nothing Like a Challenge
Of course, it is not just cleaning, it is any number of industries, but that does not diminish the sense…
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ESG – Worth Doing for The Right Reasons
No doubt like many other contractors, we have been drafting our own ESG strategy – christened at DOC as ‘Beyond…
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Keeping It In The Family – Is It a Good Idea?
As you may know, DOC is very much a family firm and it started me thinking about family businesses and…
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50 Year Partnership Continues to Thrive at The National Gallery
Compliments for the PFM Partnership Awards 2021 were continuing to be received as this article was posted online, with exemplary…
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The Changing Nature of Cleaning Presentations
I was, therefore, interested recently when looking at the agenda for certain presentations to note that the balance of questioning…
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Our Gender Pay Gap Report – 2021
From April 2017, under The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017, employers in Great Britain with 250…
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ESG – What Does It All Mean?
It cannot have escaped anyone’s attention that environmental and social governance (ESG) has moved right up the agenda since COP26.…
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Is Purified Air The Answer to Our Problems?
In April last year, the World Health Organisation updated its guidance on COVID-19, placing far greater emphasis on inhaling airborne…
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2022 – A Year of Great Promise?
For me, the number one priority for our industry this year is to build on the fantastic progress made in…
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2021 – Blink and You Could Have Missed It!
From our own perspective at DOC Cleaning, I think the best way I can describe it is to say that…
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Let’s Not Undermine Our Industry’s New-Found Reputation
Their businesses may not have fared so well – high street retail, hospitality and managed offices where tenants have left…
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Our Gender Pay Gap Report – 2020
From April 2017, under The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017, employers in Great Britain with 250…
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Sustainability – It’s Addictive
To lend weight to our efforts, we have just created our first senior Sustainability post in the company with the…
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Supporting ‘Build Back Better’
Over the last fifteen years, the terms CSR, the environment, and sustainability have featured prominently, and often interchangeably, in the…
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Three Cheers for Careers in the Cleaning Industry
These guys are loyal and valued members of the DOC family and it made me stop to think: ‘How many…
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Technology – The New Reason to Join The Cleaning Industry
I ask, because whenever you quiz someone as to how they ended up in cleaning, they almost always say it…
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Technology & Training – Let’s Not Waste The Opportunity
If there was ever an industry suited to online training, it is cleaning, possibly the most labour-intensive industry on the…
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Helping The Arts Sector Reopen With Confidence
At DOC, we have a strong involvement in this sector and have witnessed the frustration of clients trying to balance…
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How Will Working From Home Affect Our Industry?
Okay, so his company might be one that drives its staff pretty hard, but I have also heard that Barclays…
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Congratulations Are in Order!
Congratulations to Paul Thrupp and the BCC who have led this initiative. It really does herald a brighter future for…
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Reasons to Be Cheerful
The number one priority this year for DOC and the wider cleaning industry must surely be the protection of jobs…
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The Human Challenge of Cleaning In a Pandemic
The pride in delivering a service across hundreds of locations, day after day, through hundreds of committed staff. If you…