If your business or office has been closed since mid-March as a result of the coronavirus and you finally are preparing to reopen, one of the first calls you likely will make will be to your commercial cleaning contractor. But will they answer? Don't be surprised if they don't. Or if you don't get the answers you were expecting. The Toll on Business Like many other industries, the commercial cleaning business has been hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis. And like a lot of other busin...

As the stay at home orders are lifted, businesses nationwide are once again opening their doors. When your office, store, or business reopens, you have a once in a lifetime opportunity to start fresh. There's no need to pick up where you left off -- or to make the same mistakes you did in the past. The economic climate has changed, as has your customer base. Attitudes are different post-coronavirus. So shouldn't your business take a different approach, too? A Different Future Yo...

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...