Cleaning an open plan office when its staffed presents a unique set of challenges for employees and cleaners alike. Modern working environments today focus on health, safety, cleanliness, and productivity. It has never been more important than it is these days to have a clean working environment.
The challenge open plan offices face is achieving a clean workspace without disrupting your team. This requires careful planning, considerations, and coordination’s to ensure your office maintains a spotless appearance, while ensuring your team remains productive.
The first thing we take into consideration when it comes to cleaning your open plan office is balancing the art of cleaning with your teams productivity, working to avoid disrupting your employees. In most office spaces, employees need a quiet and organised space where they can focus and be productive. Vacuum cleaners and cleaning staff moving around, along with the smell of cleaning products can all impact their concentration levels.
At the same time, our cleaners need to carry out essential tasks, such as wiping down desks, vacuuming carpets, and emptying dustbins, all of which create distractions. This means we need to strike a balance to ensure your office remains clean, while your team remain productive.
We have two cleaning options to ensure we strike that balance needed when cleaning your open plan office space. The first is that our cleaners are experienced and trained, they can stagger their cleaning tasks to carry out vacuuming and other tasks during quieter periods, such as lunch breaks. We also use state of the art equipment, that tends to be quieter, along with eco-friendly cleaning products that do not give off heavy chemical smells, reducing the impact on the team. Our second option is to provide out of hours cleaning services, that can be early in the morning before employees arrive or late in the evening, once they have gone home for the day.
A hygienic workspace is essential with employees and visitors having heightened awareness when it comes to viruses, germs, and bacteria. With the frequent cleaning and sanitising of high touch surfaces, we help reduce the spread of illnesses. The biggest challenges we face in cleaning your office during opening hours is health and safety. Wet floors after mopping increase the risk of slips and falls, while some cleaning products can cause allergies for some employees.
We provide open communication between your office managers and our cleaning teams. We use clear signage to ensure your staff and visitors are aware of any slip hazards, while using environmentally friendly and non-toxic cleaning products with fast drying techniques, helping to reduce risks.
Open plan office designs experience high foot traffic throughout the day. From the actual office to the reception area, wash rooms, kitchen, and meeting rooms, these spaces get messy quickly, requiring regular cleaning. It's not easy for our teams to clean these areas when they are being constantly used.
Kitchen areas and wash rooms pose big challenges for our cleaning teams. They may clean the wash rooms in the morning, but by lunchtime they are a mess, the same goes for kitchens. Our solution is to implement a continuous cleaning schedule for high traffic areas, ensuring all areas remain presentable throughout the day.
There are a number of challenges when it comes to cleaning an open plan office, especially a staffed office. It requires a careful balancing act between cleaning and minimising disruption. At Sloane Cleaning Services, we provide flexible cleaning schedules, quiet equipment, and eco-friendly cleaning products, while addressing any safety concerns, ensuring your office remains clean and healthy. Yes, cleaning an open plan office can be challenging, and if you prefer, we are happy to provide out of hours cleaning solutions. To discuss your open plan office cleaning needs, give the Sloane Cleaning team a call today.