Artificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly everywhere. Across industry events, conferences, expos and meetings, AI is the topic that everyone wants to hear more about. The pest control industry is no different. Pest business owners are hungry to know how AI can be embedded into daily workflows to make operations leaner, faster and more efficient.We sat down with WorkWave’s Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence Strategy, Dr. Robert Coop, to discuss how AI is changing the pest…
Private equity firms are showing an invested interest in field service industries like lawn care, pest control, cleaning and other sectors, while M&A activity is skyrocketing across these industries at the same time. Sources cite the resiliency of essential services, predictive recurring revenue and business model growth opportunities enabled by technology, training and development as being reasons behind the interest. In fact, Lawn and Landscape’s most recent roundup of the top 100 green industry companies…
As recently as last year, women only made up around 31% of all employed persons across several sectors of the field service industry – janitorial and cleaning, physical security, pest control, landscaping and groundskeeping, electricians, pipelayers, plumbers and steamfitters, and HVAC mechanics and installers. In some sectors, women make up a scant 2% of total employed individuals in field service. Percent of total employed, 2023Total EmployedWomenJanitors and building cleaners2.2 million38.7%Maids and housekeeping cleaners1.38 million88.4%Security guards925,00024.9%Pest…