Maintaining a clean and sanitary workplace has always been a priority for successful businesses. But in the coming weeks and months -- as the world emerges from the global coronavirus pandemic -- frequent, high-visibility cleaning will help build confidence in your organization's safety. People don't like shopping in a dirty commercial business. But now they won't even walk into your store or office unless they feel safe and assured that you are taking steps to protect their health. C...

Coffee and business naturally go together. Most people need at least a cup or two of energizing coffee to make it through their workday. Unfortunately, coffee can also stain things like upholstery, carpeting, clothing, and other surfaces. If spilled coffee isn't addressed right away, coffee stains can live on forever. Here are some of the most effective ways of removing common coffee stains from everyday workplace surfaces. Cleaning Services Boston - Carpet If coffee is spilled onto carpetin...

Professional cleaners can keep your office neat, clean, and sanitary. But if you employ a bunch of slobs who don't take care of their workspace, it's going to be an endless battle to keep your business clean. Creating a culture of personal responsibility and pride of place will help. Encourage people to take actions to keep their workspaces clean. This can include complimenting employees who keep their area clean and correcting those who don't. Eventually, the others will get the message. Comm...

Modern office design often features large open floor plans, oversized windows or skylights to let in abundant sunshine, and the elimination of cubicles, doors, and even most walls. While this futuristic look may improve communication and productivity, it also instantly exposes any kind of messy or disorderly workspace. Despite its drawbacks, old-school office design allowed for businesses to hide disorder and disorganization behind closed doors. But the trend toward transparency lays out all of...

If you are an office manager, facilities supervisor, or even a landlord, the people that work in your office or building every day depend on you to make the right decisions. And one of the most important is hiring a reliable, competent janitorial service to clean and maintain the business space. If you hire the right company and you can be the hero. But if you hire an undependable cleaning company that does a bad job, it's likely that you will be held accountable for everything that goes wrong....

In business, there's an axiom that goes: "Inspect what you expect". People often will only perform what you require of them. If your current cleaning service workers don't feel as if you directly supervise them and aren't going to inspect their work on a regular basis, they probably aren't going to perform at the level of consistent excellence that you expect. Commercial Cleaning Services Boston -- Expectations Good managers know people need to be kept on their toes -- especially contracted wor...

Most small businesses follow a predictable path to success. They often start out as a great idea that develops into a "mom and pop" operation with perhaps just a handful of employees. But as the business becomes more and more successful it begins to grow -- both physically and financially. At a certain point, the business's owners have to start making decisions about how to facilitate further growth. And that can include hiring an outside commercial cleaning company. Cleaning Services Boston --...

There are some cleaning companies that specialize in cleaning homes. There are others that focus exclusively on cleaning businesses. So what's the difference? Isn't cleaning one space the same as cleaning anywhere else. Not really. Each type of cleaning company has its own area of expertise. Commercial Cleaning Services Boston -- Frequency For one thing, the difference is frequency. Most homeowners don't have their houses cleaned by a maid service every day. Typically, scheduled residential cle...

When hiring a cleaning contractor for your office, retail store, or business, you have certain expectations. You want somebody who is going to be reliable. You need cleaners to know what they are doing. And you expect attention to detail. Contract cleaners often work unsupervised by their clients. So their cleaners also need to be honest, hard-working and committed to doing a good job every time. So how can you get all that when hiring new cleaners for your business? Cleaning Services Boston - ...

People are creatures of habit. When we work all day in the same space, what it looks like often fades into the background. Most business owners who have a dirty or messy workplace often don't even realize it. But you can be sure that their clients or customers will. Imagine walking into a professional office or retail store and seeing overflowing garbage bins, unswept floors, or dirt-stained work surfaces. It could be enough to make you around and walk right out the door. Yet because the peopl...