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4 Advantages of Outsourced Office Cleaning in Beverly Hills

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No one ever really wants to clean their own space. That’s why professional cleaners get together and start businesses — so that they can get paid to clean someone else’s space. That really does make all of the psychological difference. That’s just one reason why it’s smart to outsource your office cleaning. Beverly Hills, do you want a few more? All right, you asked for it! Or rather, I asked for it on your behalf. And now I’m going to answer!

Let Your Staff Do What They Do Best
There’s no point to hiring the best Excel spreadsheeters in Beverly Hills and then paying them to wipe and vacuum. Let them concentrate on remembering that annoying apostrophe that comes at the beginning of a non-formula in a cell filled with what looks like a formula. Does that one get you every time? It gets us every time. Let them use the space, and let us clean it up afterward. We’re faster, more thorough, we use the right cleanser for the right job, and best of all, we usually do it overnight while you’re out doing whatever Excel spreadsheeters do at night. We assume it has to do with Excel bedsheets.

Improve Morale
Do you know what the number one crusher of office morale is? Obstacles. Have you ever wanted to do something simple, only to discover that before you could, you had to do something else, and then that the something else also had an obstacle that forced another task on your list? Can you imagine, for example, going to the breakroom to grab a cup of coffee, and discovering that your coffee cup was dirty and needed cleaning, the coffeepot was empty and needed cleaning and refilling, the sugar was all crusted into its container and had to be broken up with a ballpoint pen, and to top it all off, the fridge was so gross that it made you gag to get out the creamer? Well, we’re not going to brew the coffee — but we’ll make sure your cup is clean, your fridge is clean, and your sugar is closed properly so that it doesn’t get all crusted up like that. Ta-da! Instant morale boost, and you have an outsourced office cleaning staff to thank for it. You’re welcome, Beverly Hills!

Improve Health
This should go without saying — when your environment is cleaner, your employees get less sick, are less tired, and are better able to focus. Win-win-win! That’s three wins! This compared to having them clean up themselves, which exposes them to all of the dust and bacteria and whatnot that you want them to avoid. No-brainer, right?

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Maximize the Value of a Janitorial Service in Santa Monica

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Outsourced janitorial services: in Santa Monica, they’re a pretty standard-issue part of doing business. Seriously, who wants to pay your in-house people to spend their valuable time vacuuming and wiping up other people’s desks? They didn’t go to business school for that. But as much as it pains us to admit it, janitorial services are not the be-all and end-all of keeping your workplace as healthy and fully-functional as possible. There’s something that you can do to make our commercial cleaning even better. It’s called a “Facility Maintenance Plan,” and every business that intends to be doing business in their current location for more than a year should have one.

A Proactive Facility Maintenance Plan (PFMP, as $0.50 would say) is, writ short, a plan…for maintaining…your facility. Work with me here. The point is that if you don’t have a plan for maintenance — meaning ‘the regular and planned examination, repair, and replacement of large and important bits of equipment’ — you’re not getting the most of your cleaning. Our job is to make sure that your big important bits of equipment don’t get dirty and thus wear out more quickly — but if you’re not having your physical assets examined (dirty, dirty maintenance men) and repaired, they’ll go ahead and break down anyway no matter how clean we keep them, because there’s always some little ball bearing or summat that goes awry deep in the bowels of a thing anyway.

So put together an PFMP. It’s not that hard, just follow these steps…

  1. Break down all of your physical assets into three groups: those that need monthly, seasonal, and annual preventative maintenance. Consult your vendors, user’s manuals, and/or the Internet to get a grip on where each of your major assets belongs. Note that anything more than a few years old should get bumped up a category.
  2. Break down each of those groups into sets of items that can be proactively maintained by the same experts in the same trip. So, for example, if you can have the same guy examine your printer(s), fax machine(s), and paper shredder(s) all in one trip out, do that. Your goal is to minimize trips out, because they charge you for every visit.
  3. Once you’ve established a minimum number of maintenance-days, set up a schedule such that no two important systems are being proactively maintained at the same time. Set up each of your vendors with their schedule and get their buy-in, and you have a PFMP  to be proud of!

…and we’ll be glad to know that your office is purring along just as cleanly behind the scenes as we make it out front.