Where do you usually eat your lunch? 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! I might be able to persuade you differently. Did you know that there is more bacteria on your average office desk than on a toilet seat? 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.
However, I have news for you that computer keyboard that is sitting in front of you right now had on average around 3,300 microbes per 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.
The Alba Office Cleaning company regularly visits offices across Aberdeen to speak to staff who use a different contract cleaning company and occasionally finds a place where cleaning priorities are not fully worked out.
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. 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. 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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