Deep Cleaning The Office: The Why, How & When

Two of the focuses of my blog are Financial Literacy/Money and Business/Entrepreneurship. A key to running any business or organization is keeping your office both clean and efficient. There are several considerations for cleaning your office effectively. The following contributed post is entitled, Deep Cleaning The Office: The Why, How & When.

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It is important for any workplace that it is clean enough to work in. having a clean office is important for a number of reasons, which we will look in some detail at below. But whatever your main reasons for doing so are, it is valuable to ensure that you are clued up on how you should be doing it and when, or how often. It is especially valuable to deep clean regularly, and this is specifically what we are going to look at in this article. You will find that as long as you follow the advice in this article, your business is going to be much more successful, your employees happier, and your work day much more of a joy. Let’s take a look at this a little more closely now.

Why

Keeping a clean office means that your employees are going to be much happier, and that improvement in morale is central to ensuring that you are running a strong business. You are also going to find that you are sticking to the health and safety protocols which you need to follow by law, and in order to keep your people happy in that respect too. Having an office which is deep cleaned will help to keep illness low as well, which enables you to keep your employees coming into work, and helps to keep productivity up. As you can see, there are plenty of great reasons to undergo regular, thorough deep cleaning of your office. But how should you do so?

How

In essence, you need to make sure that you have a professional team working for you, who are going to be able to clean the office regularly. You will need the office cleaned lightly once a day after everyone has gone home, and about once a week for a deep clean, so make sure to hire teams for both of those purposes. You should also focus on what methods are best for a proper deep clean, so you and your staff all know about it. That could include using commercial cleaning products for desks and related areas, a commercial steam cleaner for the floors, and especially commercial products for the bathroom areas. If you do that, the place is going to be much cleaner indeed.

When

As we have indicated, such a deep clean should be carried out roughly once a week. But you might also want to have an extra-deep clean once a month or so, just to make sure that you are really keeping the place spotless. And those daily cleaning rituals are going to be so important for ensuring that the deep cleans are easier too, so remember to clean the office a little daily too. Finally, remember that you might need to sometimes clean the office on a special occasion, such as when visitors are coming or you are using the office to host a corporate event. Bear all this in mind, and your office should look its best at all times.

Author: anwaryusef

Anwar Y. Dunbar is a Regulatory Scientist. Being a naturally curious person, he is also a student of all things. He earned his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Michigan and his Bachelor’s Degree in General Biology from Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU). Prior to starting the Big Words Blog Site, Anwar published and contributed to numerous research articles in competitive scientific journals reporting on his research from graduate school and postdoctoral years. After falling in love with writing, he contributed to the now defunct Examiner.com, and the Edvocate where he regularly wrote about: Education-related stories/topics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Financial Literacy; as well as conducted interviews with notable individuals such as actor and author Hill Harper. Having many influences, one of his most notable heroes is author, intellectual and speaker, Malcolm Gladwell, author of books including Outliers and David and Goliath. Anwar has his hands in many, many activities. In addition to writing, Anwar actively mentors youth, works to spread awareness of STEM careers, serves on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the David M. Brown Arlington Planetarium, serves as Treasurer for the JCSU Washington, DC Alumni Chapter, and is active in the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace Ministry at the Alfred Street Baptist Church. He also tutors in the subjects of biology, chemistry and physics. Along with his multi-talented older brother Amahl Dunbar (designer of the Big Words logos, inventor and a plethora of other things), Anwar is a “Fanboy” and really enjoys Science-Fiction and Superhero movies including but not restricted to Captain America Civil War, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Prometheus. He is a proud native of Buffalo, NY.

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