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Should You Outsource Your Studio City Office Cleaning?

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Outsourcing your Studio City office’s cleaning tasks can be a great idea. Most business managers seem to intuit that, as given the lack of in-house cleaning teams in most offices, but not that many could tell you why. Fortunately, as the people getting outsourced to, MegaJanitorial is in a good place to answer that question.

Cost-Effectiveness
There are quite a few costs that professional cleaning companies are great at cutting — costs that ordinary businesses generally wouldn’t think of. Having specific recruiting, screening, training, and managing techniques for janitorial staff, leveraging economies of scale on cleaning equipment, and so on all make outsourcing a great idea just for money’s sake.

Cleaning Quality
Professional Studio City office cleaning groups have a particular core competency — it’s cleaning offices. If you’re relying on your staff (the same ones who fill out paperwork and manage accounts for a living) to do your cleaning, you’re not really leveraging them for what you hired them for. Outsource to people who clean for a living, and you’ll find that things get clean faster and stay clean longer.

More Responsive Service
As time passes, your business needs shift. Industry cycles, seasonal peaks, and innumerable other factors can change how your office works — and if you have a professional, outsourced cleaning staff, they’ll change with you. Any mid-sized or larger janitorial service will have several ‘sweepers’ that can keep coverage seamless and service top-notch even when business surges (or drops off) unexpectedly.

Reduced Liability and Insurance Costs
There are a number of specific liabilities associated with keeping your facility clean and operational — and when you outsource your office cleaning, you also outsource those liabilities. Several kinds of premises liability cases can be taken off of your shoulders this way.

 

The most important thing to remember when it comes to finding an outsourced provider for your Studio City office cleaning needs is to get a cleaning company that has experience handling your specific needs. Not all offices are the same — medical offices, school offices, and other specialized facilities deserve a service that knows exactly how to deal with their specific mess. Do that one thing, and you’re likely to discover that you love having a professional to take care of your cleaning for you.

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The Restroom’s Revenge: A Tale of Encino Janitorial Services

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Alicia and Michael came to your store to buy The Thing You Sell. (“The Thing You Sell: It’s How You Pay the Bills!”[TM]) But while they were there, Michael realized that there was something else he needed from your establishment: a place to take care of a bladder-related issue. You directed him to the bathroom, and turned your attention to Alicia. She was looking carefully at the various options and configurations of The Thing You Sell, and pondering fiercely. You let her be, figuring she’d get your attention when she was ready.

But before that happened, Michael came out of the bathroom and walked swiftly up to Alicia. He whispered fiercely in her ear for a moment, shot you an appalled look over his shoulder, and the two of them slipped out the door. You didn’t think much of it — but that night, at closing time, you opened the bathroom door yourself, and the stench alone sent you staggering backwards.

The scene before you was worse than you were capable of imagining — it went beyond the capacity of mere text to describe. As you struggled to shut the door against the power of the reeking havoc within, you knew what happened to poor Michael. You also knew, with the grim certainty of a small business owner, that you would never sell The Thing You Sell to Alicia or Michael, for they would never ever return.

“This is what you get…” the evil bathroom seemed to whisper as you finally got the door closed. “For too long, I have been cleaned only by lowly Customer Service Representatives. I demand a REAL CLEANSING! Or shall I banish every full-bladdered customer from your store and leave you with an enormous backlog of The Thing You Sell?”

Hands shaking (and nose running), you opened the office door, struggled to find the phone book, and opened it to Encino Janitorial Services. There had to be someone who could…yes. There it was…the name that would solve your dilemma.

MegaJanitorial.

Your trembling hands could barely dial, but the voice that answered was as reassuring as it was competent. This was going to be all right.

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Beverly Hills Commercial Cleaning: De-Grossing a Keyboard

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Every business that offers Beverly Hills commercial cleaning services has a variety of ‘secret’ services that they will do, but don’t generally mention to clients unless a specific circumstance comes up. One of the ‘secret services’ that MegaJanitorial has performed for clients in the past is a full-office Keyboard Deep Cleaning. It consists of five basic steps:

  1. Shut the Computer Down and Unplug the Keyboard. It’s not like you can properly clean a keyboard when it’s on a leash, and if it’s still plugged in, you never know what might happen to the computer as you mash a bunch of random keys during the cleaning process.
  2. Blow Hard. Before any kind of disinfection can begin, the keyboard needs to be clear of physical debris. That means first going old school and flipping the keyboard upside down and shaking it like a Polaroid picture. Then, it means getting out the old canned air and pshhshhshhting it clear of all of its junk.
  3. Remove and Clean. Time to get to the nitty gritty: pop off all of the keys with a screwdriver or butter knife, and pop them into a bucket using either rubbing alcohol, or a non-abrasive cleanser. Rinse them off, and lay them out on a towel to dry.
  4. Clean the Base. If  necessary, blow it out again, but basically by now you should just be able to grab a disinfectant and a microfiber cloth and wipe out all of the spaces between the key-tabs. Let it dry as well.
  5. Reconstruction. The last part is the most obvious — putting the keys back, reconnecting the keyboard, turning the computer back on, and testing it to make sure that it worked.

If you have one of the older kinds of mice that uses a ball — or you have a trackball or similar device — you should also take this opportunity to disassemble the mouse and clean out inside of it as well. Be certain to carefully examine the small metal wheels that read the mouse ball’s movement and make sure there are no hairs or other threadlike objects that got wrapped up in them. Good luck!