You probably won’t need our team at Nationwide Property Clean to tell you that the festive season is likely to be an exceedingly hectic time for your business – even if you don’t also hold your office Christmas party in the same premises.
As for if the latter will indeed be the case for you and your company this festive season, you will need to put in place some sensible measures to help ensure a rapid post-Christmas cleanup process.
Here are a few examples of what we mean.
Declutter before you do (almost) anything else
If your office Christmas party was a bit of a wild one (or even if it wasn’t), it can be easy to feel dispirited when you come back to clean up after the party, and are confronted by so much rubbish and debris strewn around the tables and floors.
However, one good reason to focus on decluttering first, is because once you’ve got a lot of the empty crisp packets, left-behind cutlery, dirty paper plates, and other more visually “obvious” waste out of the way, the space will look a lot cleaner already.
From there, you will be able to focus on deeper cleaning to help bring the office space back to the spotless condition it should be in.
Use some air fresheners and odour neutralisers
Presuming you are reading this prior to your office Christmas party taking place, the present moment is a good time to stock up on cleaning essentials. This way, you will be able to carry out a certain amount of cleaning and tidying almost as soon as the celebrations are over.
One common problem with office spaces once a Christmas party is done, is the tendency for alcohol and food smells to linger. This can be especially exacerbated over the festive break if the building is closed, with no fresh air able to enter the office space.
We would therefore advise you to have some air fresheners and odour neutralisers quickly on hand, so that some of the less welcome reminders of the Yuletide bash can be quickly banished.
Thoroughly clean all major surfaces – even if they don’t ‘look’ dirty
Comprehensive and responsible office cleaning should never just be about spotting problems by sight, because you can’t depend on all potential hygiene issues always being visible.
So, the period in the immediate aftermath of your office Christmas party is the time you really should be using disinfectant to clean every major surface, including all the tables, desks, and countertops.
This will allow you to be sure that all the grease, sticky spots, and bacteria that probably accumulated on those surfaces over the period of the celebrations is firmly gone.
Alongside this, you should be making sure hard-surface floors and carpets are cleaned, so that everyone coming back to the office in January (including any potential or current clients) is left with the best possible impression.
Yes, you can always use the Nationwide website to get a quote for an office clean and simply let the professionals carry out much of the essential cleaning work – but as someone responsible for the cleanliness of a commercial premises, you should be proactive in other ways, too. Hopefully, our above advice will have helped you feel informed, so that you can do exactly that.