Having a clean office can help to improve productivity. This can help to improve your work and to allow you to have a better day at work! Whether you are a professional cleaner who provides office cleaning services or an office employee, this guide should help you.
Desk Cleaning For Employees:
Regularly keeping your personal desk area clean and tidy helps to keep things organised and allows you to work efficiently. Here are a few office cleaning tips that all office workers can use to help maintain a clean, clear, and well-ordered workspace.
- Have a trash can within reach – Having a small bin next to your desk to avoid having waste stacking up on your desk.
- Keep Stationary close – Pens and pencils can often just be thrown around when you don’t have a designated spot for them. Get a pen pot or a desk organizer to store them in n your desk.
- Get rid of unnecessary clutter – Any paper, post-it notes or scraps should be thrown away. Get a notebook and record all notes, ideas and to-dos there instead.
- Don’t let paper pile up – Have a desk tray to organise incoming documents. This will keep them stored away and not in a pile next to you.
- Clean before you leave – Remind yourself to tidy your desk 5 minutes before you leave work on a Friday. This will help your productivity on Monday morning when you come into work in a clean and tidy environment.
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A Professional Cleaner’s Step by Step Guide to Cleaning an Office:
For professional cleaners, it is important to ensure that each section of the office is cleaned to a high standard. This is to provide the client with a fresh space for their employers to work in. The following step by step tips can help you to have a process in place for office cleaning. Moreover, it will help you to use your time more efficiently. These tips have been created to be transferable to any office space you clean. As well as that, it can be a great tool to help maintain quality control when having to clean multiple desks.
Guide to Cleaning Office Desks:
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. Remove dust from the desk and computer, desks should be wiped using multipurpose sanitiser sprayed onto a damp blue microfibre cloth. Wiping all parts of the desk including legs and drawers to remove any dirt, food stains and dust. DO NOT OPEN ANY DRAWS.
2. Clean office draw, focusing on the front and sides to remove any marks and dust. Use a damp blue microfibre cloth sprayed with multipurpose spray in a circular motion until clean. DO NOT OPEN ANY DRAWS.
3. Move devices and objects such as paper trays, keyboards, loose paperwork and mouse to ensure all areas are cleaned. Making any bases of monitors are cleaned as well.
4. Appliances on the desk should be wiped down using a clean damp cloth with only water on the cloth. NO SPRAY SHOULD BE SPRAYED DIRECTLY ONTO ANY MONITOR, COMPUTER, KEYBOARD OR MOUSE. Ensure all fingerprints have been wiped away.
5. Chairs: Use the duster or the vacuum cleaner were possible to remove dust from the back, frame and leg of the chair. Wipe down any part of the chairs that can be cleaned i.e. plastic. Including the leg chairs and back of the chair, removing dust, dirt and any crumbs, using multipurpose sanitiser on a damp blue microfibre cloth.
6. Empty each desk bin and replace it with a clean small white bin liner, dispose of all waste. If there is only a small amount of waste such as paper and the bin is not stained, to cut waste to the environment empty the contents into the main general bin without changing the individual desk bin liner. The bin must be tied on the rim of the bin and tucked into it.
Cleaning General Areas within The Office:
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Remove all cobwebs that have built up from each corner of the rooms, paying attention to high and low areas and behind furniture, such as sofa chairs, cabinets, radiators and skirting boards.
- Using a feather duster will allow you to reach the higher up areas to grab onto the cobweb pulling and removing them away from the surfaces.
2. All appliances within the office such as printer, monitors, telephone, computers, shredder etc to remove dirt and dust. Also ensuring all fingerprints have been wiped away, should be done with multipurpose sanitiser sprayed onto a damp blue microfibre cloth.
3. Make sure to wipe all doors including the door handles, and frames removing any marks or fingerprints using multipurpose sanitiser sprayed onto a damp blue microfibre cloth.
4. Empty all larger bins such as general waste and communal waste bin and replace with a clean clear recycling bin, place the full bin bag in the outside waste bin.
- Wipe down the bins if waste is present on the bin, such as food waste, using a multipurpose sanitiser on a damp blue microfibre cloth. Also cleaning out the basin of the bin if necessary if dirt and grime are built up.
- Any bins must be tied on the edge and tucked into it.
- If there is only a small amount of waste such as paper and the bin liner is not stained, to cut waste to the environment, empty the contents into the main general bin without changing the individual desk bin liner.