At your company, you throw away trash, tidy up desks, and water your plants. Usually, a professional cleaning service does the rest: vacuuming, dusting, washing windows, and sweeping.
A clean office is an important part of your business’s success. But there are so many cleaning services to choose from, do you know what to expect? Keep reading to learn the five things to look for in good commercial cleaning services.
1. CIMS Certification
What is CIMS certification? CIMS stands for Certified Industry Management Standard. Receiving this certification means a company meets high, proven standards of cleaning.
CIMS testing is difficult and thorough. If your cleaning service is CIMS certified, you can almost guarantee their work is reliable and satisfactory.
The first question you should ask your potential cleaning service is, “Are you CIMS certified?” If they’re not (or, worse, if they don’t know what you mean!), consider looking elsewhere!
2. Employee Screenings
What’s more important than the safety of your business, including your employees and their belongings? Nothing. That’s why it’s crucial that you know how a cleaning service screens their employees.
Do they do background checks? Do they conduct regular drug tests? Do they scrutinize criminal history?
A cleaning service that doesn’t do these things definitely raises red flags. They’re not the kind of company you want in your facility.
Great cleaning services will also screen for personality and aptitude matches. Their employees should be a good “fit” for the job: people who enjoy it and who are good at it. A great cleaning service doesn’t hire just anybody!
3. Insurance
Imagine you just updated and replaced all of the computers in your company. It cost you thousands of dollars, but it was a necessary update.
That night, the cleaning service you hired spills bleach on a main connection and fries all of your brand new computers. In this case, let’s cross our fingers that you made sure they were insured before you hired them!
Never overlook insurance. Good cleaning services will be insured in case of damage or loss.
4. Experience with Similar Companies to Yours
It’s important for your commercial cleaning service to have years of experience. But it’s just as important for them to have experience working with companies like yours.
If your company is all computers but the cleaning service has never cleaned or worked around computers before, how trustworthy can they be to you? If you’re a school, you want school janitorial services, specifically.
Be sure to ask potential services what experience they have cleaning companies similar to yours. This is vital to their reliability.
5. Employee Turnover and Continual Service
Employee turnover tells a story in any business, but none more than at a cleaning service. The general rule is the lower the turnover, the happier, more productive, and better the employees.
You want a commercial cleaning service with low employee turnover! You should also ask if the same people will be cleaning your facility each day.
If they use the same people in the same places every day, they get to know your facility. They become familiar with it and can clean it more thoroughly and quickly.
Good Commercial Cleaning Services Can Be Hard to Find—You Can Know What They Look Like!
You don’t have to go into it blind. You can know exactly what to look for in good, reliable, experienced commercial cleaning services.
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