Your company’s offices are more than just a place to work in, they are also you and your employee’s home for the day, and in many cases a place to entertain important guests like shareholders and customers. It’s therefore important to keep your offices tidy and looking spic and span, for the sake of your health and well-being and also because appearances really do matter! If a VIP happens to visit your company’s offices to find a slovenly mess, what kind of impression do you think it will leave them with? Not a good one!
If you feel that your offices have gotten beyond a quick tidy up your best move is to get some professional help from Sydney commercial cleaning services, whose expert staff can quickly and efficiently make your messy workspace shine again! It’s a good idea to have the professional cleaners visit several times a year in any case, but meanwhile here are some tips to help you and your staff keep things shipshape in the meantime:
Office Cleaning Schedule – Set up a schedule to organize the office cleaning tasks, and delegate them fairly among the staff so that they can take turns contributing to the endeavour. Everyone should have basic responsibility for their own office space or workstation in regards to tidying up desks and emptying wastebaskets, and the duties of policing the public spaces and break room can be doled out on a schedule.
Organize And Declutter Your Workspace – As mentioned above, this should be every employee’s responsibility. Here are some techniques that can help make it easier.
- Sort Things Out – Things tend to collect and build up until sometimes you find you have more than you need! Go through your drawers and desktop and make three piles- keep, maybe keep, and discard! Carefully consider what you really use, and box up the rest to give away or toss out.
- Clean Your Area– Take everything off of the shelves and desk in order to give them a good dusting and antiseptic wipe down. Then go back to the step above before you place them back on the shelf!
- Everything In Its Place – Make sure you have proper storage for all of your useful items. You can keep paper clips in a small plastic box, and pens in a cup where they are easily accessible.
- Hang It Up – You can place hooks on your cubicle or office’s walls to store your coat, umbrella, and bags so they won’t be underfoot.
Throw Away Your Rubbish – At the end of each day, you should empty your area’s wastebasket into one of the central rubbish bins so it won’t sit all night, especially if you have any food waste in there that can cause bad orders and create health hazards.
The Australian Government’s Safe Work website has more information on keeping your workplace clean. Don’t forget to take the rubbish out before you go home, and turn off the lights!
