How Clean Is Your Office?

When you take a lunch break where would you choose to eat? At your office desk or sitting on the toilet?

The office desk is what most of you are probably thinking right now. But read on! From a bacterial cleanliness point of view it would be safer to eat on the toilet seat. Yes, I did actually just write that! Scientists from Arizona University took samples from 100 offices across the USA and found there were 400 times as much bacteria on your average clean office desk as on the average toilet seat. Does your average Aberdeen office cleaner clean the important part of your office?

Almost certainly right now 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. Scroll down using your computer mouse to read the rest of this article and you will around 1750 microbes per square inch.

Don’t panic simply 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.

Aberdeen Office Cleaning company visits a number of new companies in Aberdeen area each week. Many of them already have office cleaning contracts with other companies so are no longer shocked to discover the lack of cleaning standards and half done jobs.

I remember hearing from a typist who was complaining that their office cleaners had left the waste paper bin on a chair and how inconvenient that had been for her having to put it on the floor beside the desk. The cleaner had probably lifted the office bin to empty it and ensure the area was vacuumed (believe me I have seen office cleaners who would have vacuumed around it rather than move it for cleaning).

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. My response was to ask her to tip her keyboard upside down over some clean paper and give it a thump with her hand. She was amazed at the amount of crumbs and dirt which came out of it. After speaking about some other cleaning priorities and the stats I quoted above we signed a cleaning contract to provide that office with a regular cleaning contract which included the desk-tops and computer equipment using our own specialist cleaning staff.

It is important that all staff and your visitors to your office get to see clean and tidy surroundings but we need to think not just about visual appearances (which are important) but about the welfare of staff working in offices. Look forward to talking with you soon.

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