Picture your office kitchen. You go in, make your cup of tea, throw the teabag in the bin, swill the spoon or throw it in the dishwasher (if you are lucky enough to have one!), and then leave. Now picture your home kitchen. You make a cup of tea, throw the teabag in the bin, wash the spoon, and then wipe the surface down before you leave the room and make sure it all looks neat and tidy.
Office kitchens are notorious hotspots for germs and bacteria. There are many reasons for this.
High traffic through your work kitchen means that as well as multiple people using it, an attitude of ‘it’s not my responsibility’ becomes apparent. There’s always someone else who will do it, isn’t there? Why should it be you – you’ve only made a quick cup of tea after all!
If you have an office cleaner already in place, there becomes a mentality that ‘the cleaner will do it’. This means that those little spills that could have been quickly wiped up during the day get left, giving the cleaner even more work to do in their allotted hours. Cleaners also take time off, so if you don’t have the cleaner coming in that evening or the following morning, it gets left for another day.
The high traffic in an office kitchen also means that bacteria is spread quickly through a small area. Think of how many things you touch when you go and make a cup of tea and how quickly germs could spread. This can then have an impact upon employee health, as increased germs means an increase in sick days. Regularly wiping down surfaces can help keep these germs at bay.
Regular deep cleaning of your office kitchen is crucial in keeping your environment hygienic and welcoming. Appliances are usually not deep cleaned. Without someone giving up time to deep clean the fridge, the kettle, the microwave etc, they keep being used without anyone ever cleaning them.
Minster Cleaning are here to help with your general office cleaning – including kitchens! We can wipe down all touch points and surfaces and can also carry out period deep cleans on appliances for you. Please contact your team who will be only too happy to help you with this.
We can also provide managed absence so if your usual cleaner is off sick or on leave, we will still turn up when we say we will.
If you would like a free, no obligation quotation for office or commercial cleaning from us, please use our branch finder to contact your local branch directly.