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Cleaners worth more to society than bankers and Accountants!
February 1st, 2010 | 
Author: We love this little article from the BBC, it is about the worth of cleaners to society.
Employment correspondent, BBC News 
Hospital cleaners play a vital role, the study found
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Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than bankers, a study suggests.
The research, carried out by think tank the New Economics Foundation, says hospital cleaners create £10 of value for every £1 they are paid.
It claims bankers are a drain on the country because of the damage they caused to the global economy.
They reportedly destroy £7 of value for every £1 they earn. Meanwhile, senior advertising executives are said to “create stress”.
The study says they are responsible for campaigns which create dissatisfaction and misery, and encourage over-consumption.
Waste workers promote recycling, researchers note
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And tax accountants damage the country by devising schemes to cut the amount of money available to the government, the research suggests.
By contrast, child minders and waste recyclers are also doing jobs that create net wealth to the country.
The Foundation has used a new form of job evaluation to calculate the total contribution various jobs make to society, including for the first time the impact on communities and environment.
Eilis Lawlor, spokeswoman for the New Economics Foundation, said: “Pay levels often don’t reflect the true value that is being created. As a society, we need a pay structure which rewards those jobs that create most societal benefit rather than those that generate profits at the expense of society and the environment”.
Tax accountants are said to destroy £47 in value for every £1 generated
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She said the aim of the research was not to target individuals in highly paid jobs, or suggest people in low paid jobs should earn more.
“The point we are making is more fundamental – that there should be a relationship between what we are paid and the value our work generates for society. We’ve found a way to calculate that,” she said.
A total of six different jobs were analysed to assess their overall value. These are the study’s main findings:
- The elite banker
“Rather than being wealth creators bankers are being handsomely rewarded for bringing the global financial system to the brink of collapse
Paid between £500,000 and £80m a year, leading bankers destroy £7 of value for every pound they generate”.
- Childcare workers
“Both for families and society as a whole, looking after children could not be more important. As well as providing a valuable service for families, they release earnings potential by allowing parents to continue working. For every pound they are paid they generate up to £9.50 worth of benefits to society.”
- Hospital cleaners
“Play a vital role in the workings of healthcare facilities. They not only clean hospitals and maintain hygiene standards but also contribute to wider health outcomes. For every pound paid, over £10 in social value is created.”
- Advertising executives
The industry “encourages high spending and indebtedness. It can create insatiable aspirations, fuelling feelings of dissatisfaction, inadequacy and stress. For a salary of between £50,000 and £12m top advertising executives destroy £11 of value for every pound in value they generate”.
- Tax accountants
“Every pound that a tax accountant saves a client is a pound which otherwise would have gone to HM Revenue. For a salary of between £75,000 and £200,000, tax accountants destroy £47 in value, for every pound they generate.”
- Waste recycling workers
“Do a range of different jobs that relate to processing and preventing waste and promoting recycling. Carbon emissions are significantly reduced. There is also a value in reusing goods. For every pound of value spent on wages, £12 of value is generated for society.”
The research also makes a variety of policy recommendations to align pay more closely with the value of work.
These include establishing a high pay commission, building social and environmental value into prices, and introducing more progressive taxation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8410489.stm
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Carpet Beyond Cleaning
This carpet is ruined and we advised the customer to replace it
Carpet in hallway of one of our customers we would have liked to help, but this carpet was beyond repair and we recommended it to be replaced in stead of cleaned.
our friends at Carpet Cleaning London would also have done the same as it’s the only right thing to do for our customers.
We can clean carpets but unfortunately not perform miracles.
Channel 4 axes how clean is your house
We are sad that this show on Channel 4 is being closed, it was fun watching and it was nice to see house cleaning made open, we see all kinds of houses from luxury estates to down right water damaged houses, they all need a cleaning and it’s skill and hard work that’s required. That is also why we do this blog to share some of the tips from what we learn when cleaning.
One of the best things with How Clean is your House, was that this question you can ask everyday.
When did you last look on top of your cupboards? or inside your drawers, when did you last vacuum your mattress, when did you last clean your oven, when did you last clean your bathroom fully.
We suggest to have a deep cleaning performed in your house twice a year.
Why because you can avoid getting vermin, moths, mold, mildew and a lot of bugs if you really clean twice a year, we recommend a weekly or bi-weekly thorough cleaning, and weekly cleaning of kitchens and bathrooms.
The more cleaning you get done the less time it takes each time.
Did you ever see some of the things they were showing on how clean is your house, well we see it everyday and it can be so nasty. It can be really bad how some houses are kept.
We especially find tenants to be the worse which is why we offer end of tenancy cleaning and why we do so many of them.
If you are moving in to a new place and even if the landlord has cleaned it, then it’s not necessarily clean, so check behind cubbaords etc and see for yourself, we also also offer move in cleaning to avoid you moving into someone elses mess.
But we are sad to see a good show going, we enjoyed it while it lasted.
How Clean is your house Axed on Channel 4
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