Is Your Office Really Filthy?
October 1, 2009
Where do you usually eat your lunch? At your office desk or sitting on the toilet?
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. 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.
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. 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 visits a number of new companies in Aberdeen area each day. Many of them already have office cleaning contracts with other companies so are no longer shocked to discover the lack of cleaning standards an half done jobs.
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.
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. 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.
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