One of the most important aspects of a company’s image is cleanliness. A messy, deteriorated and dirty workspace is one of the worst calling cards for anyone who enters for the first time in your store, office or any other area where you carry out your work activities.
In addition to the aforementioned, it is a fact that entrusting your staff and group of professionals to clean the environment is not the most viable option since this can be detrimental to the work environment and could generate complaints from the work team.
For this reason, there are companies dedicated exclusively to the sanitation and order of other institutions and infrastructures that require particular cleaning processes or certain specific cleaning techniques.
In this sense, we will now present a series of factors that are of utmost importance when choosing one of these specialized cleaning companies so that you can make the best possible choice according to your needs or capabilities.
The Budget
Clearly this is a service to which you will have to resort with a certain constancy and periodicity, for this reason, it is essential that you learn to calculate the budget you want to allocate to this section, taking into account that there are a variety of factors that may affect the final rate that the cleaning company will offer you.
Therefore, one of the most important recommendations when determining the expenses that will go directly to cleaning is to consult with several cleaning companies in order to find the budget that best suits your requirements. Some of the factors that we briefly point out may refer to: social security, cleaning products used, displacement of cleaning personnel, time required, salary, expenses for supplies and other materials.
Now, if you require a more concrete idea of how to calculate and determine the budget that should be dedicated to the cleaning of the facilities, we will offer you a series of steps and modalities so that you can understand this aspect in greater depth.
Hourly work: one of the advantages of this type of services is that they provide much more adjusted and calculated rates, the main objectives of this kind of services are based on the cleaning of offices and residences.
Contract work:
Instead of charging by the hour, with the disadvantage that the rate could be in constant fluctuation, contract work is based on the fact of providing the service for a fixed period of time, usually 6 months to a year.
Project work:
It is usually required for the cleaning of specific areas following certain specific procedures, this kind of rate can be adjusted to the time the service is needed.
Now that you know how cleaning companies usually work, it is important that you learn how to combine each of these modalities according to the specific needs of the company, since extra benefits could be obtained if you know how to make the best use of each of these rates.
However, in the simplest and easiest to understand plans, several of the following factors should be taken into account:
The competition: analyzing the competition is a fundamental aspect to anticipate the quality of the service we will receive and the general valuations that the company we are about to hire could have.
Expenses:
It is important to take into account the extra expenses that the service we are requiring could have, such as cleaning materials such as brooms, mops, disinfectants, aromatizers; the number of workers that the company will require to cover our needs to comply with the work in the stipulated time and the cost of their displacement.
The common areas to intervene and maintain
It is important to keep in mind that the cleaning company must have access to practically all the common areas of your work rooms and annexes. This is because the cleaning processes not only serve an aesthetic reason, but must also comply with certain sanitary standards in which it is necessary that all areas of the infrastructure are optimal for the staff to continue working normally.
Therefore, you must take into account that the company will have access to areas such as offices, corridors, bathrooms, kitchens, dining rooms and other social or crowded areas that may be in your institution.
In addition, it is important to note that the cleaning company in question will have cleaning products and cleaning techniques for each of the furniture and devices that will be within the organization, such as furniture, tables and desks, shelves, glass, doors, computers, televisions, printers, among other electronic devices.
What activities will the cleaning staff perform?
In general, cleaning companies should ensure that they have certain protocols, cleaning routines and techniques in place to ensure that the areas in which they will be working are as clean as possible and meet all the standards mentioned above.
On the other hand, it is also important to keep in mind that the company that will provide the cleaning services must adapt to the schedules in which the contracting institution works. A clear example of this is that offices cannot be cleaned during working hours or strong chemicals should not be used in crowded areas at that particular time of the day.
A good cleaning service provider should have cleaning schedules and routines for at least the following situations and activities: cleaning of reception, common areas, thorough cleaning of restrooms, and replacement of trash bins.
Do the workers have a good personal presentation?
Although in many occasions it may not seem so, the fact that each of the members of the working staff has a good presentation and has each of the utensils to be used during the cleaning day is essential, this will provide a great image of professionalism and will position the company in question.
It is important that when deciding which company will clean your common areas, you pay attention to details such as that the personnel has a correctly designed uniform, that it provides a good image and that it is clean.
Service schedules
Another of the fundamental aspects when deciding on the company that will provide you with its services is to determine if its schedules are in accordance with the company’s own schedule:
That the cleaning staff enters the facilities before the rest of the workers so that they can perform certain cleaning tasks prior to the professional activities.
Likewise, the cleaning personnel should leave after the rest of the personnel.
That the service of attention to the workers covers a large part of the day so that any situation that arises during working hours can be attended to.
To a great extent, the predisposition of the company you choose will be decisive to qualify the quality of the service.
