Better Places

We’re reflecting on Thank Your Cleaner Day and the feedback we’ve received.

As October came to a close, we took a moment to look back at this year’s celebration of Thank Your Cleaner Day. We want to reflect on the feedback we’ve received from colleagues and how this has initiated important conversations around our benefits and rewards.

Thank Your Cleaner Day is a celebration of the hard work that cleaning teams do to contribute to business success. Their often invisible role is vital in maintaining clean, healthy, and inspiring environments that are ready to use each day.

This year, we aligned Thank Your Cleaner Day with our core value to ‘Make a Difference’ for our colleagues. This day let us spend some time with our valued cleaning colleagues and celebrate their ongoing hard work. We seized this opportunity to engage with our cleaning teams, explain our benefits package, and most importantly, listen to their feedback.

Our aim was to understand how our colleagues are utilising our benefits and how we can enhance awareness and relevance. By taking the time to listen to the challenges our colleagues face in their work, we’re working on strategies to better support them and make improvements.

We’ve had some truly inspiring conversations with colleagues and received an outpouring of support and feedback. We’re now taking steps to change and enhance our colleague rewards as a result of their input. Our priority is that all teams feel valued at work, with rewards and benefits that are relevant to them.

We’re incredibly proud to see our values in action every day, and we’re committed to continually supporting our colleagues. Thank you to our remarkable cleaning teams for all that you do. Together, we’re building a brighter and more sustainable future.

This day recognises the hard work of those that make our business a success.

Thank Your Cleaner Day gives us the opportunity to celebrate the hard work our colleagues do to provide a consistently high quality service. We care for our colleagues every day by offering a competitive benefits package, holistic training and wellbeing support. This day lets us not only offer a token of appreciation but also provides us with the opportunity to spend time together. 

This year we’ve aligned Thank Your Cleaner Day with our core family values to ensure we ‘Make a Difference’ for our colleagues. We’re taking the opportunity to explain our benefits package to our colleagues and ask for feedback on these. We hope that this shows us how colleagues are using our benefits, and how we can increase awareness of them. We’ve also taken time to listen to the challenges our colleagues face when undertaking their work. Our aim is to build strategies to support them better and make improvements where needed.

The 18th October is all about our cleaning teams who are the backbone of our business and help us to make a difference every day.

Working hard to keep the spaces we visit enjoyable, this often invisible job is crucial to maintaining healthy, inclusive and inspiring environments. Our skilled cleaning teams are onsite each day to ensure that work and living spaces are ready to use. This is sometimes outside of normal working hours so that buildings are clean, hygienic and ready to use for the next working day. 

Our cleaners are trained to be confident and approachable so that they can engage with visitors to the spaces they clean. It’s this that makes our teams special and an integral part of the environments they work in. We know that our team contribute to how visitors experience these buildings.

That’s why we celebrate Thank Your Cleaner Day. We want to put the spotlight on our amazing cleaning teams, and champion the work they do.

Making a Difference – Bottle Made Blue

Our leadership team have been out and about this month, meeting and thanking our colleagues for their continued hard work.

To show our thanks, we wanted to give our cleaning colleagues a little something. This year, we’ve gifted them with a sustainable water bottle as a gesture of our appreciation.

These environmentally friendly bottles are recyclable, reusable and dishwasher safe, putting an end to packaged water. We’ve placed a flyer with a message of appreciation in each one and hope our our colleagues enjoy the gift.

In true Regular Cleaning spirit, this gift also delivers positive social value to communities in need.

For each bottle given out, Made Blue provides 500 litres of clean drinking water to a community in need. This equates to one child from a developing country having access to clean drinking water for six months or more.

With close to 1000 charity bottles gifted this Thank Your Cleaner Day, that’s closing in on half a million litres of water donated by us on behalf of our colleagues. 

This makes a huge difference to communities around the globe, supporting our sustainable business strategy to create better places. A simple way to show our thanks, while supporting our sustainability targets and reducing the use of single-use plastic bottles.

Putting People First

As front line workers, our cleaners are an essential part of keeping the spaces we visit safe to use. It’s important to ensure cleaners feel appreciated and valued at work, and we hope that our gift does exactly this. Our priority is to be not only a great employer, but an employer that makes a difference. For us, this means listening, receiving feedback and making any changes needed.

This has been a great opportunity to say thank you in person and hear any feedback our colleagues might have. As a business that values a personal service and lasting relationships, we relish the opportunity to show our appreciation to our hard workers.

Thank Your Cleaner Day is celebrated worldwide, recognising the hard work that cleaners do. Our company has achieved so much as a result of our cleaners and the care they put into their work. By providing a personal service, caring about the job, and building relationships with clients, our colleagues make a difference in their job every day. We’re so proud to see our values demonstrated each day our cleaners come to work, and know it’s this that makes our business a success.