High traffic areas of an office includes hallways, common rooms, communal work desks, reception areas, and lobbies. It is essential to maintain the cleanliness of these areas, providing a welcoming and professional environment, while reducing the risk of germs and bacteria spreading quickly through your team. Professional office cleaning services focus on ensuring your high traffic areas are clean, hygienic, and presentable.
The Importance of Cleaning High Traffic Areas Within An Office
Before we look at how we manage cleaning high traffic areas in an office, we need to look at the benefits. This will help you understand why regular cleaning is essential for your high traffic areas.
- Great first impression – Most of the time a new client or visitor will arrive in a high traffic area of your office. A clean and presentable environment creates a great first impression, showing your attention to detail and professionalism.
- Hygienic and Healthy – High traffic areas lead to the accumulation of dust, dirt, and germs. Regular cleaning reduces the spread of viruses and bacteria, providing you with a healthier working environment for your employees and your visitors.
- Improved Productivity and Morale – a clean and presentable working space gives employees a sense of well-being, boosting morale in the office, along with improving productivity.
- Increase the Lifespan of Office Assets – when you regularly clean flooring, furniture, and carpeting in high traffic areas, you can extend the lifespan of these assets. Ongoing cleaning reduces the need for repairs or replacement, saving you money.
How We Manage the Cleaning of High Traffic Areas in an Office
As professional office cleaning specialists, we use a number of strategies to ensure the high traffic areas in your office are clean, hygienic, and presentable.
Daily Cleaning Schedules
Daily cleaning schedules ensure your high traffic areas are clean and presentable, making a great first impression on potential customers, future employees, and visitors:
- Sweeping and vacuuming – remove all the dust, dirt, and debris brought into the office with the foot traffic. Vacuuming removes any dirt caught into the fibres of the carpet, making it look and smell clean and fresh.
- Mopping – hardwood floors and tiled floors should be mopped, ensuring they are clean without stains and marks.
- Dusting and Wiping – all surfaces in busy areas should be dusted and wiped. They should be cleaned and then sanitised, using a high quality disinfectant. These surfaces include counter tops, desks, telephones, furniture, light switches, and door handles.
Scheduled Deep Cleaning
While daily mopping, vacuuming, and sweeping can remove dirt and provide a cleaner appearance, you will still need deep cleaning, ensuring that your carpeting and furnishings remain fresh, while your office remains clean and hygienic. Carpet cleaning should be scheduled on a semi-regular basis, depending on how busy your office is, to help remove embedded dirt and refresh the fibres of your carpet.
- Floor Waxing - You can work hard to sweep and mop high traffic areas, but they are going to become stained over time. Regular deep cleaning helps to remove old wax build-up and provide a fresh layer to your floor, improving its appearance, while protecting it against constant wear and tear.
- Upholstery Cleaning – Your office upholstery, especially chairs and sofas, in high traffic areas should be professionally deep cleaned to remove odours, allergens, and stains.
- Window Cleaning – While spot checks are done on windows during daily cleaning, it's important to consider window deep cleaning, removing any fingerprints and streaks.
Conclusion
The cleaning of high traffic areas in an office improves the appearance of the area, making a great first impression on visitors, while ensuring the health and safety of your employees. As professional office cleaning specialists, we will provide you with a daily cleaning schedule for high traffic areas, based on your office size, design, and number of employees. We will also assist with scheduling deep cleaning for your carpeting, windows, and upholstery, ensuring your high traffic areas are well maintained at all times.
