We often hear from our commercial customers that one of the most important contributors to high office morale and first impressions with outside visitors is a clean office! Employees, customers, vendors, and other business associates will draw conclusions about a business based on what they see when they visit an office. If it looks clean and sanitary, they will assume the business is professional, organized, and honest. They will feel they can trust the company. A dirty office will communicate the opposite. That is why many of our commercial customers firmly believe a top-tier professional cleaning service is a must, as it yields a high return on investment.
BENEFITS
Regularly-scheduled cleaning service can provide a business with a number of important benefits:
- Maintaining an in-house cleaning staff is often not ideal:
- In-house staff means more overhead, administrative, insurance, and payroll costs.
- Scheduling, supervising, and assessing in-house staff can place a significant workload on the business' management.
- In-house staff require your business to purchase the necessary equipment, tools, and supplies.
- In-house staff may not be properly trained in cleaning best practices.
- Making employees responsible for cleaning jobs can lead to problems:
- Potential accidents could put your business at risk.
- Time spent on cleaning is time not spent on the business' core revenue-generating tasks.
- A clean facility is good for your business' image. A clean office lets everyone know you care about the business, its employees, and its customers enough to have the space professionally cleaned.
- A clean office or retail space motivates employees to perform at their best.
- Your employees deserve and will appreciate a clean and healthy work environment.
- Your employees may miss less work due to illness.
JANITORIAL SERVICES
Most of Summit's commercial customers receive recurring janitorial services. Janitorial services typically offer regular cleaning to keep workspaces and other areas clean and orderly. Depending on the size of the business and the amount of daily traffic within the office, service is usually performed daily, weekly, or bi-weekly. The goal of the service frequency is to maintain a clean, presentable, and comfortable work environment.
Janitorial service typically includes:
- Disinfecting frequently touched surfaces including phones, door handles, and light switches
- Cleaning, disinfecting, and restocking restrooms
- Cleaning and disinfecting break rooms and kitchens
- Sweeping and mopping hard surfaces
- Vacuuming floors
- Dusting
- Emptying individual trash cans and replacing liners
- Removing trash and recyclables from the office and placing them in customer-specified dumpsters or other receptacles
COMMERCIAL CLEANING SERVICES
Some of Summit's commercial customers receive periodic commercial cleaning services, which go beyond regular cleaning. Commercial services are often requested in addition to janitorial services. Commercial cleaning services typically include:
- Deep carpet cleaning
- Tile and grout cleaning
- Furniture and upholstery cleaning
- Window washing