How Clean Is Your Office?
When you take a lunch break where would you choose to eat? Do you sit on a toilet seat or at your office desk?
I guess most of you would choose to eat at your office desk, wouldn't you? Research has shown that it could be safer to eat off your average toilet seat than your office desk. Arizona University researchers collected swabs from around one hundred offices right across the US and on analysis found there was over 400 times as much bacteria on the office desk as on the average toilet seat. Does your Aberdeen office cleaner clean the office desk properly?
Right now you probably have a keyboard sitting in front of you. On average that keyboard will likely to have over 3,000 microbes in every square inch. Move that mouse sitting it and you will be potentially contacting over 1700 microbes per square inch. Don't panic but pick up the telephone to find a office cleaning company and you will be speaking into an office accessory with 25,000 microbes per square inch.
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.
On one of those visits an office manager was telling me how she regularly has to complain to the office cleaners about the odd paper clip that has been left for days on the floor. Why she did not pick it up herself the first day I still don't know.
I asked her which was the most important job for the cleaner in the office around the desks. To be told to make sure that the bins were emptied and the floor was cleaned every day but office staff would clear their own desk so papers were not disturbed. With her permission I spread a few clean sheets of paper from her printer on the desk. Tipped her own keyboard upside down and tapped it a few times to remove the crumbs, bits of skin and dirt from between the keys. 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.
Posted: July 3rd, 2009 under Contributed.
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