FEATURE


“Like all employees, commercial cleaning


professionals want to feel safe, productive and happy.”


Empower your cleaning team We learn from Tennant UK about the benefits of adding robotics to your cleaning regime.


As employees return to more in-person work and consumers shop and dine in-person more frequently, professional robotic cleaning machines (AMR) from Tennant UK can add confidence that the buildings they frequent are meeting higher standards of cleaning.


That task falls on the business service contractors (BSCs), environmental services, facility managers and their professional cleaning crews.


Statements of work and the scope of cleaning contracts reflect this heightened industry expectation while also looking for ways to reduce costs, making the professional cleaning landscape more and more competitive. This means BSCs and facility managers can’t afford to lose their current commercial cleaning professionals.


With ongoing labour shortages, it’s more important than ever to have employee engagement strategies that empower cleaning operatives, and professional development initiatives to increase employee productivity, safety and retention.


Both require businesses, BSCs and facility managers to think differently about employee empowerment and professional development for commercial cleaning professionals.


What commercial cleaning professionals want


Commercial cleaning professionals work in various indoor settings – airports, offices, schools, healthcare facilities, shopping malls, warehouses, etc. Often, they work nights and weekends to make these settings clean, sanitary, and inviting for employees and visitors.


Their work can be physically taxing, especially if required to lift heavy objects and operate heavy equipment on top of the frequent bending, sweeping, and scrubbing intensifying the job’s physical demands.


Like all employees, commercial cleaning professionals want to feel safe, productive and happy. They want to know that their work has value and that their company will invest in their success. This is where employee empowerment and professional development come into play.


Empowerment and professional development


High turnover and labour shortages make effectively implementing modern tools and employee empowerment strategies a major initiative for most organisations.


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However, implementing robotics is one strategy leading businesses use to improve engagement, employee empowerment and up-skilling their staff. In addition, AMRs are revolutionising cleaning and how businesses can meet rising customer expectations and cost pressures.


Rather than displacing cleaners, intelligent business leaders are using AMRs to work alongside humans – leaving the professional cleaners to do the high-value tasks only humans can do.


AMRs won’t make human cleaners obsolete, as not all tasks are fully automatable. However, robotic floor cleaners can be trained to perform repetitive and redundant tasks which take the pressure off cleaners. This allows human cleaners more time to put their effort and attention into jobs that make a more significant impact.


Cleaning professionals who work along AMRs now have more time to expand their skillset to include robot training and management. In addition, AMRs allow staff to better manage their time and accomplish more than they could before. This means they are happier and less stressed compared to the current environment, when most have more tasks than can be done well within the time allowed.


Incorporate a Tennant AMR into your operation


Tennant offers a range of robotic floor scrubbers powered by field-tested, vision-based BrainOS artificial intelligence and robotic technology. They are currently being used in a wide range of complex industries to clean while avoiding people and obstacles. Incorporating robotic floor cleaning machines into your operation can help you reduce the cost to clean, enhance your facility’s image, maintain health and safety standards, and ease equipment operation and maintenance.


Tennant robotic scrubbers: • Monitor cleaning performance. •


Provide key metrics with both daily and weekly reporting.


• Support employee and facility safety with on-board safety measures like cameras and sensors.


Learn more about the T380AMR, T7AMR and T16AMR at the website below.


www.tennant.co.uk twitter.com/TomoCleaning


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