Commercial cleaning businesses suffer extreme 75-200% annual staff turnover
Commercial cleaning operators face the highest employee turnover of any service industry, between 75-200% annually, making workforce stability the central constraint on growth and profitability. Despite a $112B market with recurring revenue and ESG tailwinds, the labor crisis erodes margins and makes scaling nearly impossible without solving retention first. This is a structural workforce problem, not a market access problem.
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