It’s the start of another work day and you’ve just settled in at your desk — a place where you spend one third of your life. You’re typing away on the keyboard and answering the odd phone call. You head to the photocopier to make copies for an upcoming meeting, where you’ll be shaking hands with a potential new customer. You fuel up with a reheated lunch using the staff room microwave. In your rush back to your desk, you drop a pen on the floor and quickly grab it. At some point, you finally realize it’s time to use the restroom.
Sounds like a typical day at the office right? Now stop to think about every surface you touched or interacted with along the way. Yikes. There were some serious germ culprits, and alas…a few days later you aren’t feeling so well. Time to call in sick.
I’ve seen this scenario many times in my forty years of cleaning. Germs spread around the workplace like wildfire, hiding on unexpected surfaces, and resulting in various levels of illness. And it’s not just in office environments….it happens in warehouses, retail stores, and of course, healthcare facilities. So it’s obvious that a clean workplace is important, and it’s my job to tell you why.