After a challenging 18 months it would seem that the challenges are not over yet with many industries suffering with staff shortages and that includes the cleaning sector. Pre Brexit, there were concerns across the sector that there would be a shortfall in staff as historically UK Nationals have chosen not to join the sector…
With the worst of COVID-19 hopefully behind us, international travel soon to resume and furlough coming to an end in the coming months, employers particularly those within the hospitality and cleaning sectors are hiring again but the impact of COVID and Brexit is starting to be felt and is now a new challenge to be…
The first official UK awards ceremony celebrating and recognising office management professionals, organised by The Office Management Group is due to take place later this year when government restrictions are lifted and USS are delighted to announce that our Office Manager Julie Wiseman is a Finalist for the Hybrid Office Manager of the Year Award.…
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…
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…
It’s always nice to receive positive feedback about the service we deliver to our customer’s and in particular praise for the hard work and dedication of our staff and today on a wet and windy Monday, it was with delight that we were notified one of our Supervisor’s had been awarded Associate of the Month…
On a grey and wet Monday morning, it was with great pleasure that we received acknowledgement that an award of recognition had been appointed by one of our clients, a global hotel group to a member of our staff. Alioune Badara Niang who joined USS in September as a Cleaning Operative and is still within his probationary…
2017 was a busy year for us all here at USS and one of our longstanding members of staff, Miguel Pedro contributed to the great success we had. Miguel works nights as a Supervisor at one of London’s 5* hotel’s and can always be relied upon to ensure he and his team deliver above and…
November saw Housman Guene receive our employee of the month award and our Director, Paul Vincent was there to present it to Housman himself. Housman was recognised for his reliability, fantastic work ethic and willingness to help. He is always happy to come in to work even on his day off to cover and nothing…
Istvan Nagy was the proud winner of our Employee of the Month award for October. Istvan has worked for USS since March of 2015. He has always been a valued member of our team and is based in one of the prestigious hotels that we are responsible for the cleaning of, situated in the heart of…