Is Your Office Really Filthy?
It is time for your meal break where would you normally choose to eat? Do you sit on a toilet seat or at your office desk?
I suspect that almost all of you would decide to choose your office desk. You may change your mind when you learn that your average toilet seat in offices today has less bacteria on it than your office desk. Researchers working with Arizona University collected samples from 100 different office buildings across United States to confirm previous findings showing there was around 425 times as much bacteria on the office desk tan on the toilet seat. Surprised? Is your Aberdeen office cleaner cleaning the most important of your office building? Find out here.
Almost certainly you will be sitting in front of your computer with a keyboard. That keyboard will probably have around three thousand microbes looking to get onto your hands right now.Your mouse is a little cleaner with only around 1700 Concerned pick up that telephone to get new office cleaners and you will find you are putting over 25,000 microbes per square inch being placed beside your mouth and ears.
Alba Office Cleaning company is regularly in touch in office managers throughout Aberdeen city and visits places which are cleaned by other cleaning companies is now no longer amazed at the lack of knowledge of office staff about the need for regular thorough cleaning.
One such visit brought me in front of a very serious and formal office manager who said she was concerned about the lack of standards with all the office cleaners she had used. Almost every one of them would occasionally forget to pick up a paper clip she had dropped on the floor beside her desk.
On asking what the cleaners had been instructed to do about cleaning the office desk I was often told not to disturb any papers so staff had everything to hand. I asked her to move a few papers back and spread out some clean paper in front of her. I then lifted the keyboard and tipped it upside over the clean paper and gave it a few gentle smacks to loosen the dirt and crumbs that were lying inside it. The new cleaning contract we put into that office set priorities on staff welfare and ensuring areas not used much were downgrading as to the number of cleans needed each week.
Yes, visitors to your office expect to see a clean office environment and their first impressions do count but office managers should also be thinking about the health and safety or even welfare of their own staff as well.