The cleaning industry is undergoing significant transformations due to the increasing trend of remote work. As more people spend part of their week working from home, the demand for cleaning services is shifting in both commercial and domestic spheres. For commercial office cleaning, businesses are rethinking their cleaning schedules and strategies. With fewer employees in the office on any given day, traditional daily cleaning routines are being replaced by more flexible, needs-based approaches. Instead of uniform daily cleans, many companies are opting for thorough, targeted cleaning sessions on the days when the office is most occupied. This change not only optimises cleaning efforts but also ensures that high-touch areas and communal spaces receive the most … [Read more...] about Adapting Cleaning Rotas to Accommodate Shift in WFH
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We’ve all established that there are positives and negatives surrounding working from home. Whether video calls in your pjs is something you have grown accustomed to or the interference from kids/pets/other half/poor internet (delete as appropriate) is becoming intolerable, and you dream of normality (if we can remember what that is!), a return to the workplace is inevitable for most, at some stage. Just because your offices have been sitting empty however, doesn’t mean there hasn’t been a build-up of dust and grime, and those dirty dishes you left in the sink….? Well, they will be unrecognizable and hosting multiple bacteria…. not to mention the toilets which have been sitting unflushed, with water evaporating, leaving an open path for sewer odours. At APM … [Read more...] about Hi Lo Hi Lo it’s back to work we go…..
So, what new year’s resolutions have you made within your business for the coming year? We started 2021 resolving to finally become a truly paperless office (we started in 2019!); with dreams of less clutter, freeing up of desk space and less cleaning! Minimising waste and contributing to a sustainable future felt like a good direction for APM to take, and when we reviewed our ISO 9001 systems, we realised just how much our procedures had already evolved. Re-thinking our in-house systems across all departments however, it was still encouraging to establish additional areas in which we could save on paper use, especially within the role of our new Contract Manager, who shall now work, day to day, with a drastic reduction in printed correspondence. Does anyone … [Read more...] about Paper-free…anyone?