Page 46 - Clean India Journal Magazine June 2019 Issue

HOUSEKEEPING

Using Apps in

Professional Cleaning

More and more cleaning operations are being run on-site with the

help of digital apps, which can offer a wide range of management
information including quality auditing, daily reports, instant
reporting and staff time & attendance. A developer of the technology,

and a cleaning company seeing significant benefits from it. Report:

igitisation – the buzzword
in the professional cleaning
Dsector over recent years.
We have seen the launch of robotic
machines, online fleet management
services, smart washroom
dispensers – the list goes on. There
is also a plethora of apps available,
enabling cleaning businesses to
organise their workforce better,
gather data and improve the service
to the client.
While they are widely
acknowledged as being an
invaluable tool in raising efficiency
and transparency, the introduction
of apps within a cleaning business
does raise certain issues which
must be addressed – privacy of the
operative for example. Dirk Tuip
heads up FacilityApps, a business
specialising in developing apps for
cleaning companies.

“Each European country has its
own issues around privacy - the one
affecting all of them is GDPR,” he
explains. “In the Netherlands and
Belgium for example, there is a law
to say employers must know where
their employees are and they must
be able to prove where they are and
when. This is partly in an attempt

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