Keep Your Office Clean in 7 Easy Steps

The trouble with leftovers is they tend to stick around long past their welcome. From leftover slow cooker chicken tacos from the company potluck in the common fridge to half-eaten fruit sitting out on a table, it all has to go. At best, this food gets in the way and takes up precious real estate in the fridge. At worst it can present a health hazard that could cost money in the long run. It’s simple: Clean up after you’re done and this will never pose a problem.

Your keyboard, phone, desk, common tables, kitchen countertops … What do all of these have in common? They are all covered in germs! Food residue on surfaces makes them unpleasant to the touch and can also cause problem odors, but they also pose a health risk. It’s not that employees are going to get deathly ill from a dirty keyboard, but every sick day adds up to lost productivity and reduced well-being in the workplace. Why not just get ahead of it?

At home, many people let their children roll around in the dirt and build up their immune systems. It’s just part of being a kid. But that’s playtime and not a professional environment. Keep hand sanitizer easily accessible to help prevent the spread of illness. Hand sanitizer dispensers scattered around the common areas of your space will encourage their use. A clean, welcoming space may even inspire confidence from prospective clients and other visitors. 

Keeping an office, or any common space, clean is easy when everyone on the team pitches in. Don’t leave the responsibility of cleaning up to the one or two employees who seem to clean anywhere they go. Likewise, don’t let those particularly messy employees get off scot-free. If it becomes common practice just to leave private and common areas a bit cleaner than they started, keeping clean will be easy.

If you aren’t currently employing an office building cleaning company, taking out the trash at the end of the day is critical to ensuring the entire facility stays clean. When the trash backs up, no one can clean their desks or common areas. Create a schedule so different teams of employees handle the trash on different days of the week! 

There are other functions that your team probably just can’t handle alone—cleaning those hard-to-reach spaces, tile and carpet cleaning, and porter services, just to name a few. Have you ever asked the question, “Is there an affordable office cleaning company near me?” The answer is a definitive yes. Kep Klen is one of the premier office cleaning services in Denver because we offer competitively priced, quality, reliable services to all our clients. Contact us today to learn more!