Where would you rather have lunch? At your office desk or sitting on the toilet?

I suspect that almost all of you would decide to choose your office desk. I might be able to persuade you differently. Did you know that there is more bacteria on your average office desk than on a toilet seat? Scientists from Arizona University took samples from 100 offices across the USA and found there were 400 times as much bacteria on your average desk as on the average toilet seat. Does your average Aberdeen office cleaner clean the important part of your office?

However, I have news for you that computer keyboard that is sitting in front of you right now had on average around 3,300 microbes per square inch. Scroll down using your computer mouse to read the rest of this article and you will around 1750 microbes per square inch. Concerned pick up that telephone to get new office cleaners and you will find you are putting over 25,000 microbes per square inch being placed beside your mouth and ears.

Alba Office Cleaning company visits a number of new companies in Aberdeen area each day. Many of them already have office cleaning contracts with other companies so are no longer shocked to discover the lack of cleaning standards an half done jobs.

One such visit brought me in front of a very serious and formal office manager who said she was concerned about the lack of standards with all the office cleaners she had used. Almost every one of them would occasionally forget to pick up a paper clip she had dropped on the floor beside her desk.

On asking what the cleaners had been instructed to do about cleaning the office desk I was often told not to disturb any papers so staff had everything to hand. I asked her to move a few papers back and spread out some clean paper in front of her. I then lifted the keyboard and tipped it upside over the clean paper and gave it a few gentle smacks to loosen the dirt and crumbs that were lying inside it. The new cleaning contract we put into that office set priorities on staff welfare and ensuring areas not used much were downgrading as to the number of cleans needed each week.

I simply ask that when drawing up office cleaning schedules we give more attention to the welfare of office staff to get maximum performance from them.