Hundreds of jobs binned in company collapse Commercial cleaner Swan Services have appointed administrators: thousands of jobs yo go. Nine hundred workers in NSW have lost their jobs as a result of cleaning company Swan Services collapsing earlier this week, and 578 positions have been cut in Victoria. Swan was one of the country's biggest providers of cleaning services to offices, shopping centres and universities. Administrators that its directors appointed on Wednesday quickly laid off the entire 2466 strong cleaning staff yesterday. New figures from the administrators Pitcher Partners reveal more than a third of affected workers were employed in NSW. Of the 901 staff in NSW, 814 were cleaners and 87 were in management. Swan also employed 578 people in Victoria, 583 in Queensland, 184 in Western Australia, 156 in South Australia and 64 in the ACT. The 43-year-old company, founded and owned by Robert Swan, had been unable to cover the wages bill, and administrators say it is too early to say if affected workers will get all their entitlements. Some of the staff have been hired by other cleaning contractors. Pitcher Partners is aware that a number of employees have been offered employment by replacement contractors. Each customer has made their own arrangements," the administrator said in a statement on Friday. It is unclear how the company got into financial trouble. Pitcher Partners' Anthony Elkerton said on Thursday that it had been losing money on several contracts, was hit by a major computer glitch earlier this year, and had suffered a delay in receiving payments from customers. Early estimates are that the company owes $2.8 million to creditors and is owed $2.5 million. The national president of the union United Voice, Michael Crosby, yesterday said Swan had been one of the five biggest cleaning businesses in the country, and its woes followed a string of collapses in the industry.