How to Use Office Cleaning to Enhance Workplace Productivity

Did you know office cleaning can help boost productivity in your workers and make your workplace an overall better place to work at? Routine cleaning of commercial places and offices is known to help instil a sense of confidence in employees and can make it easier for them to trust their company with their safety during office hours. It will, in turn, result in better overall performance from employees. Contact CLEANA office cleaning company to know more.

Unless you’re personally managing your cleaning team and getting your office cleaned daily, there is a good chance that your office is not getting the best cleaning services it deserves. Not getting your office cleaned properly and routinely might result in a drop in the performance of your workers, who may be too distracted (by the clutter around the office) or concerned (about their safety from germs) to focus on work and give their best to the company. Hiring a professional office cleaning service from Clean Group for daily or weekly office cleaning is a wise first step, but there are a few other things you can do during office hours to maintain a high level of cleanliness and productivity in your workplace.

How office cleaning affects productivity

If your offices are not routinely cleaned, managed and tidied up, chances are that your workers will be often distracted by the clutter in the office and may not be able to focus on their work, which will result in decreased productivity and performance. Moreover, it would be difficult to find things such as files when needed and might waste too much of your staff’s time. There is also the risk of accidents such as trips and falls in an untidy workplace. To sum up, your office needs to be cleaned, and very often.

Tips for a Cleaner and More Productive Office Environment

These tips and ideas from our professionals can help you establish a positive and productive environment in your workplace through routine and consistent cleaning.

1. Keep your office desk clean and tidy at all times

A lot of germs can be found on a dirty office desk, especially if you are working and eating at the same place. Make sure that your desk is cleaned daily, even if you have to do it yourself. Keep disinfectant wipes with you to wipe any dirt or dust off your desk as soon as you see them. Besides daily cleaning of the desk in the morning or evening, make sure to keep your personal desk tidy and managed at all times. Keep things organised, papers filed, and electronics clean and shining. Electronics such as the computer monitor, keyboard and mouse should also be dusted, vacuumed or wiped daily to remove any hidden dirt and germs. Use a file cabinet to keep all your files and papers, use a separate box for stationery and one more for your phone, wireless and other portable devices. Keep a dedicated garbage bin under the desk and throw away any garbage that you come across.

Make sure that all other desks around your office are also routinely cleaned, whether by employees or dedicated cleaners.

2. Clean the office floors

Routine cleaning of floors is crucial both to enhance the appearance of your premises and to ensure the safety of your staff from germs. The best you can do here is to have a cleaner or team routinely clean and maintain your office floors. The team will vacuum, mop and/or wash your office floors daily or as needed. They can also clean any carpeted floors you have in your place. Other than that, you can consider keeping a portable vacuum cleaner handy to instantly clean any dirt or spills on your cabin carpets and floors.

Routine cleaning of carpets along with the floors is essential to maintain an overall clean and healthy workplace environment. If there are stains on your floors or carpets, use a good quality stain remover based on your floor/carpet type.

3. Wash the windows to keep them clean & attractive

As they say, “windows are the eyes to the house.” Your windows are usually the first thing your office visitors will notice and your employees have to see them throughout the day, so make sure that your windows are always clean and sparkling. The office windows will accumulate dirt, dust and germs over time and need to be maintained properly and routinely so that they do not act as a distraction for employees or contribute to spreading germs within the workplace.

Besides routine cleaning of office windows once a week or so, you can arrange monthly deep cleaning, including exterior window cleaning service by professionals. While you can clean the interior on your own, it is recommended to hire a professional office cleaning company for exterior window cleaning, especially in high-rise buildings.

4. Clean the computer every day

One of the easiest ways for office workers to catch infections is through their computers, keyboards and other equipment that they spend most of their office time with. The computers and electronics in your office will catch dirt and dust just like anything else and might accumulate a lot of dirt and germs over time if not cleaned regularly. A dirty computer is not only unappealing to look at and might discourage your workers to be productive but also it can pose serious health concerns for those who are in direct and constant contact with them.

To sum up, you must make sure that all your office computers are dusted or vacuumed daily. In addition, you can provide employees with disinfectant wipes to let them wipe down their own computers and desks as often as possible or required.

5. Get your office deep cleaned once a month

General cleaning is good to keep your office protected from daily dirt and germs, but over time, dirt will get into inaccessible areas, corners and other places that are hidden to the eye. Bacteria in such places that are not routinely cleaned can start growing and breeding and mould could be formed. This is why you need to also deep clean your office every once in a while. And you need to make sure to always hire a professional office cleaning team for deep cleaning of your commercial premises. Our cleaning includes full, comprehensive cleaning of the entire building, including hard-to-reach places, corners, vents, top of cupboards, behind the toilet, under the furniture, and more.

Professional cleaning services by our team are backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee and will meet your particular cleaning goals and needs. We offer the most competitive cleaning service pricing in Sydney.

6. Keep the office kitchen clean and hygienic

Whether you run a school, a restaurant or any other type of business, having a clean and germ-free kitchen is the need of the hour. If you want to keep your workers and customers safe from millions of germs common in business premises, you need to start with keeping your kitchens well-maintained at all times. Ideally, your office kitchen should be cleaned daily and every time after cooking is completed. Also, make sure to get all sensitive points and surfaces, including kitchen slabs, fridge handle, water taps, sink, etc, disinfected routinely. In addition, you should strongly consider getting your office kitchens deep cleaned by a professional cleaner once every month or so. It should be done more frequently for restaurant kitchens, ideally once every week.

7. Clean your office as you’d cleaning you home

You and your employees spend a major part of your waking hours at the office, so it shouldn’t be wrong to say that the office is like a second home to you. And so, you should be willing to keep your office as clean, if not more, as you’d do with your home. Just as you clean your home daily, you should be cleaning your office every day as well, even if it’s just basic sweeping, vacuuming and/or mopping. In addition, you should make the arrangements to get different parts of your office cleaned as and when needed during the work hours. For example, if a worker has accidentally spilled tea or coffee on the floor, there must be someone to clean it immediately to not let stains form. Some areas of your office may need more frequent and deep cleaning than other parts. Toilets, for instance, can get a lot dirty very often and may therefore need to be cleaned multiple times a day.

Make arrangements so that your cleaners can come, do their work and leave before your office hours so as not to interfere with your office work or affect employees performance. Cleaning during office hours can become a distraction for employees and can make it hard for them to focus on the work at hand. Many cleaning companies offer flexible schedules and can accommodate your cleaning preferences to offer services as and when you need. You can hire our office cleaners for daily or weekly cleaning of your premises before, during or after hours as well as on weekends.

Hiring a professional cleaning company for office cleaning is almost always the right decision that can guarantee the best value for your money. Cleaner outsourcing is more efficient than hiring and managing in-house cleaners both in terms of cost and results. Professional cleaners who have relevant experience in your industry and plenty of skills and high-tech cleaning equipment and tools will certainly do a better job than your average, inexperienced cleaner you may be considering hiring full-time. Most importantly, professional cleaning services are very affordable in the long term, because unlike your in-house cleaners you do not have to pay our cleaners a full salary but will only be required to pay for the number of hours you use our services and staff.

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