I'm afraid summer is about over; time to buckle down and get back to work.
Also, time to look around the office or work place with a view to the image you present to your customers and, even more, the impact your building's condition will have on the morale, health, and safety of your staff.
Tile looking dull? Carpet spotted, or traffic areas discolored? Hard to see through the dirty windows?
When the economy went south a while back, many firms around the Valley cut back on cleaning - either dropping the janitorial service entirely, or cutting services to a minimum, with periodic jobs such as burnishing and refinishing tile, carpet cleaning, and window washing eliminated. (Or, if those periodic cleaning items were not included in the ongoing janitorial price, they were put off to another day.)
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with saving a few bucks, particularly if it avoids layoffs, or bankruptcy.
Sooner or later, though, deterioration of your facility and furnishings, due to lack of proper periodic building maintenance (like most any other area of maintenance) begins to show, and expenses multiply - deep shampooing of heavily soiled carpet is considerably more costly than the bimonthly or quarterly carpet cleaning we normally provide; burnishing tile is a lot less expensive than the refinishing job that’s needed if you skip the burnishing.
Moreover, a building that is not being properly cleaned and sanitized - not just restrooms, but touchpoints through the building (due to a cheap but less than thorough janitorial service, or to one’s own untrained employees) - leads to a less healthy, and less productive, workforce.
Now might be a good time to evaluate whether a minimal frequency but thorough cleaning and sanitizing schedule (perhaps once or twice per week in a smaller facility) coupled with periodic burnishing, carpet cleaning, window washing and so forth, might make economic sense over the long haul.
We clean a lot of facilities on that kind of schedule - we provide valley wide janitorial service in Phoenix AZ. You get one reasonable and consistent monthly price, a better-looking and healthier workplace, and a happier and more productive staff.
A bit about us:
My firm, CBN Building Maintenance, provides commercial cleaning services in Phoenix AZ and the wider metro area. We've been in business since 1974; hold the BBB's A-plus rating; and have long been in the forefront of the industry in environmentally sensitive cleaning for health, safety and security. Our program can generally improve Indoor Air Quality, in the size range of most allergens, by a factor of 50%, as reflected in our ongoing IAQ sampling.
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