Ballina worker named Employee of the Year

ANNA Wroblewska from Ballina has been named Employee of the Year and the 2016 GEM Awards (Going the Extra Mile), presented late last week by ISS, a major provider of outsourced business services which employs over 3,500 people.

Anna, who is married with one child, works in Ballina District Hospital, where she heads up the cleaning team there.

She is described as a natural leader who is very calm and cool under pressure and who is very popular with fellow workers and the hospital staff. She is also very reliable and is always happy to cover shifts at short notice if someone else is sick.

Not only that, she is very popular with some of the older patients in the hospital as she offers to get them what they need from the shops, such as magazines, biscuits, etcetera, before she heads home in the evening. Anna really does go the extra mile for ISS.

The GEM Awards recognise the valuable contribution of employees involved in business supports such as cleaning, catering, security, M&E, pest control and property services.

Popular Dublin GAA star Alan Brogan, a man with strong Mayo connections, presented the awards. “There is a great sense of satisfaction in giving your best, whether that is on the sports field or in the workplace, and it is even better to have progressive employers like ISS Ireland publically recognise staff that are both committed and talented,” the former Dublin footballer said at the awards event, which was held in the Moy Valley Hotel, Co. Kildare.

The people who work in essential support services such as cleaning, catering, security and maintenance can go unnoticed in the workplace, added ISS managing director Eric Doyle, but without them, many of our hospitals, universities and businesses simply could not function.