One of the most important costs to your business won't be found in any profit and loss sheet or budget. It's the opportunity cost of having your own staff clean your business -- or doing it yourself -- as opposed to hiring a commercial cleaning contractor. When your staff is cleaning your business, they aren't focusing on what's really important: Taking care of your customers. So while the hourly rate of paying your people to clean your business may be lower than the cost of hiring a cont...

One question we sometimes get at All Bright Janitorial Cleaning is, "How do you know HOW to clean a specific business, office, or interior space?" The answer is simple: We always apply the same top to bottom cleaning approach to every project. Top-to-bottom cleaning means starting at one upper corner -- usually the northeast corner -- of the room and working our way down and out until we reach the opposite corner. That way every square inch of the room gets the attention it deserves and w...

Big corporations are like glaciers. They move very, very slowly. The can't change direction very quickly. And when change occurs, it's usually something big and dramatic -- like an iceberg calving. But small businesses have a lot more versatility. Their owners can make decisions on the fly and affect real, dynamic change that can instantly improve the business, its operations, and its profitability. Like getting rid of their sub-par contract cleaners and replacing them with one that is le...

When people launch their own businesses for the first time, they often have big plans for the future. But because they currently lack experience, they often overlook the smaller yet essential things that are important to their success -- like cleaning. All businesses need to be cleaned but some more than others. If you are launching a retail store that serves customers in person, every day your carefully prepared workplace is going to be trodden through by customers wearing dirty shoes, t...

At All Bright Janitorial Service, we don't discourage clients from assigning special cleaning projects. We look forward to them. That's because we want to be your full-service contract cleaner -- providing both everyday, routine cleaning and specialized cleaning that improves the sanitation and safety of your business. In fact, thanks to our wide range of experience cleaning all kinds of businesses -- including manufacturing and medical facilities -- we offer specialized skills and equipm...

If you suspect your overnight cleaners aren't doing a good job, they probably aren't. But there's only one way to find out for sure. Set your alarm for 3 a.m., drive down to your business, and conduct a surprise inspection When your overnight cleaners are not providing you with the services you are paying for, it's well within your rights to see for yourself what they are doing inside your business. Surprise inspections aren't only justified, they should be welcomed by your contracted cle...

When hiring an overnight cleaning contractor, there are lots of things to consider. But one key element can instantly tell you whether they are a good choice or not. And that's how fast they work. When overnight cleaners work quickly, it means they have a lot of work ahead of them and need to get it done efficiently. They may have multiple clients on the same night. Or they may have a lot of smaller individual tasks to accomplish during the shift for a single client. In any case, when a t...

After more than two years of "work from home" during the global pandemic, an increasing number of businesses are asking workers to finally return to the office. While there were many benefits of letting people stay home, there were also a lot of challenges. These included things like supervision, productivity, and being able to address issues quickly and thoroughly. While many companies did what they had to do in order to deal with the real-world situation while everybody else was letting...

Before the pandemic, business offices were a lot busier. But office workers were allowed to work from home (WFH) during the Covid shutdown, offices emptied out for months or even years. Today, workers are slowly returning to the workplace but at a rate much lower than anticipated. This is due to two factors: First, business managers realized WFH offered economic advantages such as lower overhead costs, and workers learned to enjoy spending more time with their families while still getting...

Have you ever had the experience of walking into a retail business and just thinking, "Ew ..." Store owners and managers know that people don't like to shop in messy retail spaces. If your floors are dirty, your lighting fixtures need dusting, and your shelves are sloppy, most shoppers won't come back. That's why frequent, high-quality retail cleaning is essential to the success of any store, regardless of whether they sell high-end automobiles, electronics, trendy clothing, or anythin...