Managing a clean and professional workplace is challenging at the best of times, but when your office spreads across multiple floors, coordination becomes essential. Split-floor offices present unique cleaning challenges.
If you have had the opportunity to read our previous blogs, you know we always stress that office cleaning is never a one-size-fits all approach. Every office is unique with different foot traffic levels, departments, and access times.
The Sloane Cleaning Services team have put together some effective tips to help you coordinate cleaning in split-floor offices.
The first step is to understand how each floor of your office is used. The ground floor is usually your reception and welcome area, while upper floors are meeting rooms, break areas, and workstations. How the floor is used will determine the cleaning frequency, along with cleaning priorities:
High traffic floors require daily cleaning and can include:
These areas require routine dusting, vacuuming, and the emptying of bins. These areas can include:
In order to coordinate the cleaning of a split-floor office, it's important to maintain consistency, developing cleaning protocols that focus on:
We recommend creating a check-list for each floor, broken into daily, weekly, and monthly tasks. This enables in-house cleaners to tick off each task completed, which can then be verified by a supervisor on completion.
If you target all floors at the same time, it can be inefficient and disruptive, rather stagger your cleaning throughout the day. After-hours cleaning is often preferred for certain areas or floors, ensuring that the office sparkles when you arrive in the morning. We recommend the following schedule to avoid disruption:
Good communication is essential to ensure all areas of your split-floor office is clean and healthy. It's important to encourage open communication, ensuring any issues are reported immediately, such as:
Schedule a cleaning inspection at least once a month, whether you have an in-house team or you hire professional office cleaners. This helps you assess the cleanliness of the space, while identifying any issues. This helps to refine your cleaning schedule and adjust cleaning frequency if needed.
Having professionals to come in and clean your office provides numerous benefits. Whether you opt to hand over your entire cleaning schedule, or use them for deep cleaning, to support your in-house team, professional office cleaners offer experience, knowledge, and expertise.
Coordinating the cleaning of split-floor offices requires a bespoke approach. Following the above tips can help you ensure your office is consistently gleaming and healthy, providing employees with a safe working environment that boosts morale and productivity. Contact Sloane Cleaning Services today if you need help keeping your split-floor office clean and hygienic.