After placing sixth in the Professional Services Best Places to Work list, Cleancorp arrived at this year’s awards hungry for more and nabbed the top honour as The BOSS Best Place to Work in the Legal, Advisory and Professional Services category.
Cleancorp has achieved many milestones over the years as a female-owned and led business, with women accounting for 84 percent of employees. The recent AFR Best Places to Work awards saw the commercial cleaning giants add another landmark moment to its suite of achievements, becoming the first cleaning company to win The BOSS Best Place to Work award.
Cleancorp CEO Lisa Macqueen describes the win as momentous for the industry.
“It’s huge news for our industry and we’re super proud to be the first cleaning company to achieve this,” she says. “We love that our industry is getting national attention.”
The antithesis of a sales event
Alongside Ecofy founder Nora Potter and Cleancorp general manager Sally Hunt, Macqueen is also the co-founder of The Facilities Forum. The trio created The Facilities Forum in response to the lack of nurturing and engaging networking events for women in facilities and operations management.
The Facilities Forum works to subvert traditional understandings of networking events. Guests can expect a calm and relaxed environment wherein they can easily strike up a conversation with like-minded people. The Facilities Forum has so far held three successful events and intends to host two or three events every year.
“It took us by surprise, what kind of an impact Facilities Forum has had,” Macqueen told Facility Management last year. “It’s been brilliant.”
A Facilities Forum event is marked by stimulating conversation and a resounding feeling of warmth and intimacy. “What we want is for everybody to feel like they are at home – that they are in an open space of inclusivity,” says Hunt.
The Facilities Forum crafts a supportive community for women to prosper.
