Commercial Cleaning Services: Outsourcing Your Cleaning

For many business owners, using commercial cleaning services is an unnecessary cost. Business owners are always looking to maximise the efficacy of their spending and create better efficiency in how the business is run.

Many business owners operate under an incorrect assumption that by cutting costs wherever possible that they are saving the business money. Although this may be true in dire situations, hiring professionals in key areas to do a job correctly the first time can be even more important for a business to run efficiently and make more money.

In this article, we will contribute to that notion by investigating how a commercial cleaning service can improve efficiency on a work site and help reduce costs. We at Clean Focus believe that our commercial cleaning services can help businesses elevate their level of cleanliness well also helping managers run their businesses more smoothly.

The Challenge Of In-House Cleaning

The argument is generally made: Why should a business hire a commercial cleaning service when the company itself could easily employ a cohort of cleaners themselves and cut out the middleman, saving money? This may seem both a logical argument and an attractive option for those trying to save money.

The goal of this article is to prove why commercial cleaning services in the long term would save your company money. To prove this point, in this section, we will first refute the above argument by discussing the limitations of an in-house cleaning system. After which, the later sections will discuss the benefits of commercial cleaning services.

1. Limitations Of In-House Cleaning Staff

Hiring in-house staff to provide cleaning services may seem both a sustainable long-term idea and cheaper than hiring professional commercial cleaning services. The truth is that there are many obstacles and limitations to acquiring these cleaning staff members. Let us review a few of the most critical below:

• Recruitment:

Finding the right cleaning staff is the earliest obstacle you must overcome. Expecting current employees to take on cleaning duties will generally be unreasonable. This means you must hire new staff to take on these duties. Here already, you are incurring costs, as you will now need to provide the latest cleaning staff with fair wages and a fair contract that legally protects both the employee and employer. On top of these initial costs, one must also consider the inherent risk of hiring any new employee. Are they trustworthy? Will they work efficiently and effectively? Furthermore, will they meet the cleaning standards set out by governmental legislation? These are only a few concerns you must account for before recruiting these in-house cleaning service staff members.

• Training:

Unlike commercial cleaning services, where training is already conducted before they arrive on a cleaning site, new cleaning staff must be trained. Again, you face an obstacle because training must be conducted so that the new cleaning staff are confident to clean commercial areas that benefit the company’s needs and meet the cleanliness standards set out by occupational health legislation.

Someone with expertise in these areas must conduct this sort of training. If you do not currently employ someone with this expertise, you must hire someone to provide adequate training. Hypothetically even if you have staff who could provide sufficient training, you must consider the opportunity cost of having that staff member training new staff.

Recruitment and training are only the two largest initial obstacles to hiring new cleaning staff. Once they are hired and trained, there are other costly challenges you will have to consider. These include how you propose to provide managerial oversight, how your business will give the cleaners the correct equipment to do their job correctly, and how you will provide safety to cleaners under your employ.

2. In-House Cleaning And Efficiency Decline

So far, this section has highlighted only a few challenges in employing your in-house cleaning staff, laying out the apparent costs of such an operation. However, an argument can also be made that compared to commercial cleaning services, an in-house cleaning may also be less efficient. Here are only a few reasons a professional cleaning service will be more efficient:

• Expertise and specialised knowledge
• Efficient workflow and task management
• Availability of specialised cleaning equipment
• Flexibility and scalability for larger commercial businesses

Advantages Of Outsourcing Cleaning

Above, the goal was not to completely discourage businesses from hiring their own cleaning staff. Rather the goal was to make readers aware of the possible challenges they may face when setting up a service like this in their own business. For some companies, like those in the hospitality industry, investing in an in-house cleaning team may make more sense. However, the abovementioned obstacles will be too expensive and inefficient for other commercial sectors to have an in-house cleaning team.

We at Clean Focus strongly recommend a professional cleaning service for these commercial set-ups. Hiring such a service will help you avoid the costs and obstacles listed above and provide added benefits, which will be discussed further in this section.

1. Efficiency Through Expertise

The primary method by which commercial cleaning services will provide your company with better cleaning efficiency and be a more cost-effective option is expertise. When hiring commercial cleaning services like Clean Focus, there are several ways that expertise is instilled in our cleaners that make them a better choice.

• Specialised Cleaning Services: Our commercial cleaners are trained in and have specialised knowledge in cleaning areas often cleaned incorrectly. From floor care to window cleaning and industrial cleaning, our professional cleaners at Clean Focus are trained to handle and clean these areas effectively the first time.
• Knowledge Of Best Practices: At Clean Focus, we are committed to being an industry-leading commercial cleaning service in Sydney. This commitment means that our team is also knowledgeable about best practices and the latest cleaning techniques. Therefore no matter the cleaning challenge on your site, you can be sure that our professional cleaners will be able to handle it, no matter the surface or the material that needs cleaning.
• Proper Equipment And Tooling: Our Clean Focus team has the correct cleaning equipment and chemicals from the get-go. With better technology in the cleaning space, our team will clean areas quicker than in-house cleaning staff can, making us the more effective option.

2. Resource Optimisation

Another major advantage a professional cleaning service has over the in-house cleaning option is how resources are optimised. Because our focus at Clean Focus is on cleaning commercially, our business model will be better optimised for factors surrounding cleaning than our clients, whose focus is on the industry they are working in.

This, in turn, means that when hiring Clean Focus, you are avoiding the risk of under utilising your resources, which will save your company money and allow for more effective cleaning of your business when needed. Here are a few ways Clean Focus optimises our cleaning resources:

• Supply Management: One way we optimise our resources is by taking care of our cleaning supplies more efficiently than non–cleaning commercial services would be able to. From buying cleaning products in bulk to reduce costs to having good relationships with suppliers of cleaning products. Clean Focus manages supplies so that our cleaning products and equipment cost less, savings which allow us to offer clients more competitive service prices.
• Staffing Flexibility: Hiring in-house cleaning staff means there will be times when they have to be on-site without cleaning. In this way, your company is under utilising their staffing resources. At Clean Focus, we have the experience to know how big a team is needed for a commercial cleaning job. By being flexible on how big a cleaning team we send to a job, we maximise our cleaner’s time and effort.

Enhanced Productivity And Employee Morale

Now that you better understand both the challenges of hiring your own cleaning service and being aware of the benefits professional commercial cleaning services can offer, you may be excited to contact Clean Focus immediately to see how they can help you keep your business clean.

However, there are other positive factors that commercial cleaning services can offer your company that may further convince you. In this section, let us look at how hiring commercial cleaning services may boost your other employees’ morale, improving their productivity.

You may not even be aware, but there have been studies in recent years conducted by scientific groups that have proven that a clean workplace correlates with employee productivity and morale. Let us review a few here:

• A study by the University of Arizona (USA) showed that employees who worked in a clean and organised space were almost 15% more productive than those who found themselves in a disorganised workspace.
• Another study showed that when employees are exposed to a clean workplace on average, there was a 24% reduction in workers being absent or claiming sick leave. This, in turn, greatly boosted the productivity levels of the businesses that were being observed.
• Finally, a study by the University of Michigan showed that employees reported being happier about their job and having a more positive attitude towards work when placed in a clean work environment.

We know that as a good business owner, you want your staff to be as productive as possible and satisfied with their job. Hiring commercial cleaning services that keep your work site neat provides your employees with the cleanest space and is likely to be productive while maintaining good morale. Therefore, hiring a commercial cleaning company could positively impact employees’ productivity and morale.

Improved Health And Safety

As any good business owner knows, it is costly when accidents occur in a work set-up or on business property. It majorly reduces the site’s efficiency until the emergency is resolved. These accidents or health emergencies can often occur when a business is not maintaining good sanitation levels.

To avoid these issues, costs and drops in productivity levels, it is critical to ensure that your place of business is safe and sanitary for your employees. Here commercial cleaning services can help.

One way to ensure you are meeting the required sanitary standards designated by the Australian government is to hire a trained cleaning team to meet those levels. Our professional cleaners at Clean Focus are trained to clean so that your company’s cleanliness standards are met and your business can surpass any sanitary inspection by government agencies.

At Clean Focus, we are proud to set high standards of cleanliness for those cleaners who work for us. We ensure these standards by instituting strong quality control measures to ensure the job is done right.

Clean Focus: The Right Choice For You

This article aimed to establish why hiring a commercial cleaning company could be more efficient and cost-effective for your business. This was done by highlighting the drawbacks of using an in-house cleaning team and discussing various benefits that commercial cleaning services could offer your company.

Now that you are convinced of these benefits, you should contact a professional cleaning service as quickly as possible. If your business is situated around the Sydney area in Australia, there is only one right choice: Clean Focus. Our team of highly professional cleaners and friendly customer service agents will help provide you with the right package. So don’t hesitate to call Clean Focus today to get your commercial site cleaned.