Setting the Standard for a Clean Workspace
A clean office is a productive office. When you hire a professional commercial cleaning service, you expect more than just a quick vacuum and taking out the trash. You are investing in the health, morale, and professional image of your business.
To ensure you are getting the comprehensive service you pay for, it’s important to know exactly what a thorough office cleaning entails. Here is a comprehensive checklist of what a professional janitorial service should cover.
Daily Cleaning Tasks
These are the essential tasks that maintain the baseline cleanliness and hygiene of your office on a day-to-day basis.
- Reception and Common Areas: Emptying trash receptacles, wiping down tables and chairs, organizing magazines/materials, and vacuuming or sweeping floors.
- Workspaces and Cubicles: Emptying individual wastebaskets, dusting accessible desk surfaces (without disturbing documents), and sanitizing high-touch areas like phones and keyboards (if requested).
- Breakrooms and Kitchens: Wiping down countertops and tables, cleaning the exterior of appliances (microwave, refrigerator, coffee maker), sanitizing the sink, and sweeping/mopping the floor.
- Restrooms: This is critical. Daily tasks must include cleaning and disinfecting toilets and urinals, sanitizing sinks and counters, cleaning mirrors, restocking supplies (soap, paper towels, toilet paper), emptying trash, and mopping floors with disinfectant.
Weekly Cleaning Tasks
These tasks focus on deeper cleaning and maintaining areas that don’t require daily attention but can quickly accumulate dust and grime.
- Dusting: Thorough dusting of all surfaces, including window sills, picture frames, shelving, and the tops of partitions.
- Glass Cleaning: Wiping down interior glass doors, glass partitions, and mirrors to remove smudges and fingerprints.
- Floor Care: Deep vacuuming of all carpets and thorough mopping of all hard surface floors, paying attention to corners and edges.
Monthly or Quarterly Deep Cleaning
These are specialized tasks that preserve the long-term appearance and hygiene of your facility.
- High Dusting: Cleaning hard-to-reach areas such as ceiling vents, light fixtures, and the tops of tall cabinets.
- Deep Carpet Cleaning: Professional extraction or shampooing to remove deep-seated dirt and stains.
- Hard Floor Maintenance: Stripping, waxing, or buffing hard floors to restore their shine and protect the surface.
- Upholstery Cleaning: Deep cleaning of office chairs, sofas, and partition fabrics.
Conclusion
A professional cleaning company will work with you to customize this checklist based on the specific needs, size, and foot traffic of your office. Transparency and consistency are key to a successful cleaning partnership.
ExoKlean provides customized, comprehensive janitorial services for offices throughout Westchester County and NYC. Contact us for a free consultation and tailored cleaning plan.
