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How Clean Is Your Office?

Where would you rather have lunch? 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? 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. Scientists from Arizona University took samples from 100 offices across the USA and found there were 400 times as much bacteria on your average desk as on the average toilet seat. Does your average Aberdeen office cleaner clean the important part of your office?

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

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. We then spoke about cleaning standards and setting priorities in the cleaning schedule before drawing up a new cleaning contract ensuring that the welfare and safety of staff using computers and telephones was also given full attention.

I simply ask that when drawing up office cleaning schedules we give more attention to the welfare of office staff to get maximum performance from them.

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