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Cleaning start-up makes it a point to pay higher wages: CEO
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Mr Daniel Thong, co-founder and CEO of cleaning start-up Nimbus, which hires cleaners as employees, not freelance contractors.
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Yasmine Yahya
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Mr Daniel Thong, 29, co-founder and chief executive of office-cleaning start-up Nimbus, readily admits that the services offered by his company "are definitely not the cheapest on the market".
But, as he shared at The Sunday Times Roundtable on wages in an age of disruption on Friday, this was the start-up's intention from the outset - to fix the "broken" cleaning industry by lifting wages for cleaners.
