GreenZone Cleaning & Support Services, as part of our ethical trading initiative, has been a Recognised Service Provider since 2013. We are extremely proud that we were one of the first Recognised Service Providers of the Living Wage Foundation. With our ethos of staff engagement, enhanced training, career mapping and paying enhanced wage rates the Foundation was the perfect partner for us. We endeavor to be an employer of choice inspiring all our clients to be a catalyst for change within a notoriously low paying sector, the cleaning industry.
GreenZone recognises that our staff are our greatest asset, we seek to empower them to be talented ambassadors of our brand. By paying all our headquarter and core staff the real Living Wage, and through a process of incentivising, our staff remain highly motivated. GreenZone promotes cleaning as a positive career choice for talented hard-working people and benefits from the highest staff retention rates of 98% within our industry. It is the quality of our staff and their enthusiasm, pride and commitment to our business that singles out GreenZone in the marketplace.
It is important to GreenZone that we have strived extremely hard to work with all our existing and new clients to explore ways of self-funding the introduction of the real Living Wage into our businesses. From our perspective, paying the real Living Wage is good for business, good for the individual and good for society. The net effect we have seen is increased productivity, reduced absenteeism, better recruitment/retention, improved quality of work and increased ethical awareness.
We are proud to currently hold 74 Living Wage client contracts and challenge ourselves to steadily increase this amount every month, empowered by hearing such positive comments from our employees.
Greenzone Cleaning & Support Services are shortlisted for the Recognised Service Provider Award in the 2018 Living Wage Champion Awards. The Awards celebrate individuals and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to the Living Wage movement, find out more here.