City Workers Stress!

International clients expect exceptional standards from businesses based in London. By having a clean, ordered office you will create the best first impression. Like it or not, how we look creates that first impression, and this is the same for your business.

Walk into a cluttered, messy London office and your perception will be of a company that operates haphazardly and ineffectively. Ensuring your office is clean is well over half the battle. Contracting a London-based commercial cleaning company to pamper your premises will give results that will not only impress your clients, but it will also help the productivity of your often over-stressed employees.
London city workers experience enormous amounts of stress, and in some industries are only able to survive the cut-and-thrust for a few years before burning out. A commercial cleaning company will maintain a clean, clear workspace, which means your employees’ heads will also be less cluttered and clearer and so more capable of working under the pressure London-life creates. You’ll have employees that stay with you for much longer – resulting in an experienced, cohesive workforce.
There are some very simple approaches to keeping your office clean: having doormats prevents street grime from marching its way through the office; providing a pleasant downtime space with plenty of storage space will encourage your employees to not keep snacks in their desks. You should also consider implementing a ‘clean desk’ policy, so all papers are cleared away at the end of the day. This makes it easy for your office cleaners to do a thorough job, and encourages employees to get work finished and keep organised.
If your office isn’t cleaned effectively and regularly then your workforce’s motivation will wane. You may well have an office cleaning service who comes in every day, but just yesterday I saw a video of a cleaner walking into a cubicle waving her feather duster around and walking on to the next cubicle to do exactly the same – at no point did she touch a surface!
Worryingly if you’re not using a reputable, professional cleaning company you could be in the firing line of some pretty nasty problems: from rats and cockroaches, to bacteria and germs that will result in lost workdays and expensive clean-ups (excuse the pun!).
If you can see wisps of dust on your desk, if you can see dust bunnies hiding in the corner and if you can see fingerprints (or forehead prints!) on the glass walls, so can your visitors. In this case your commercial cleaning service isn’t doing its job effectively, and more than likely your employees aren’t doing their job effectively because they are surrounded by dirt: not very safe and not very healthy. Under section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act, employers are legally required to keep their offices at an acceptable standard of cleanliness.
Aside from daily maintenance and period deep office cleaning, your London-based professional cleaning service should be able to advise you on how to optimize and organise your office. A good cleaning contractor will offer suggestions on how to improve first impressions for your all-important clients as well as guide you in ways to improve your health, safety and hygiene regulations.