How Filthy Corporate Offices Hurt Productivity
Ryan Cavicchio understands the true value of a healthy staff.
And he knows how clean corporate offices play a role in reducing employee absenteeism.
“A healthy staff is extremely valuable to our company,” said Cavicchio, who is Assistant Vice President of Facilities & Manager at Bank of Princeton in Princeton, New Jersey. “Callouts are brutal on our day-to-day. On the retail side, we would need to pull staff from other locations to cover. This becomes a never-ending cycle of short staff form the locations pulled. This also creates a ‘catch up’ effect at these branches.”
Employee callouts can wreak staffing plans throughout a corporation. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that absenteeism costs U.S employers $225.8 billion annually in productivity losses. In fact, unscheduled absenteeism costs about $3,600 per year for each hourly employee and $2,650 each year for salaried employees, according to published research.
Professionals, such as physicians, nurses and teachers, lose $24.1 billion in productivity annually because of absenteeism. Managers/executives ($15.7 billion), service works ($8.5 billion), clerical ($8.1 billion) and sales ($6.8 billion) contribute to the annual drain on production throughout the country.
CNS Cleaning Company, a family-owned, commercial cleaning company outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since 1983, has developed a special cleaning service for corporate offices that helps facility managers protect their team members.
“In effect, we can wrap your entire corporate offices in a HAZMAT suit,” said CNS President Bill Dunn.
Pathogens Love Restrooms in Corporate Offices
Employee restrooms are problematic for most facility managers.
“The bathrooms are the biggest headache,” said Sade Carmichael, who is the executive personal assistant to the CEO at EDA Contractors in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. “The shop and warehouse restrooms are the biggest pain point. They get the most foot traffic and deplete the most paper products of our company.”
Bathrooms in corporate offices are high-traffic areas, which can lead to grime and the transfer of pathogens. Employees use the company restrooms about three to four times each work shift, according to research firm Kimberly Clark. The same study found that 71% of office employees viewed the bathroom condition as a reflection of management. Another research report from The Bradley Corporation took the sentiment one step further, finding 83% of employees perceived the restrooms as an indicator how a company values its employees.
A project published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology studied four public bathrooms during a couple months to examine how communities of bacteria and viruses can migrate. The researchers found genetic matter from more than 77,000 different types of bacteria and viruses. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)-associated virulence genes were found on floors. The human papilloma virus and herpesviruses were also present.
Wall-to-Wall Carpets Breed Germs in Corporate Offices
At a closer look, carpets can be scary, especially in corporate offices where every employee unknowingly contributes to the challenge. A carpet can contain 200,000 bacteria per square inch, according to Dr. Philip Tierno of NYU Langone Medical Center. The shocking number represents 4,000 times more bacteria than a toilet seat.
“Carpets are disgusting in every corporate office,” says Jeffrey Upmalis, who is vice president of operations and sales at CNS Cleaning Company. Think about all the places where you walk and then you walk on the carpet in the office.”
To thoroughly clean carpets at corporate offices, CNS uses distilled water, which removes 99.9% of the minerals, bacteria, pesticides and other contaminants that come with tap water. The family-owned company also uses encapsulation cleaning methods to remove difficult stains. First, the cleaning crew sprays an environmentally friendly solution on the carpet and brushes it in good. The solutions adhere itself to particles in the carpet, which allows us to quickly remove large amounts of grime with a HEPA vacuum. If needed, CNS can provide truck mounts that clean up to 30,000-square feet of carpet in one day.
Indoor Dumpsters Make Corporate Offices Reek
Most corporate offices call them “trash rooms,” which is where they store their trash indoors before they are finally disposed. Unfortunately, it can create a mess, ranging from intoxicating smells that haunt the hallway to the spread of festering bacteria and pathogens throughout the building.
CNS provides a special service package for trash rooms in corporate offices, which begins with power washing. Typically, the company uses power washing for exterior tasks, delivering a wide range of blasts from 1,000 psi for windows and decks to 2,900 psi for sidewalks and stones surfaces and 3,300+ psi for commercial and industrial floors. But when it comes to trash rooms in corporate offices, CNS brings its expertise indoors.
“The smell dissipates immediately,” added CNS’ Jeffrey Upmalis, who has helped many corporate offices raise the staff’s morale by delivering a clean workplace.
CNS Cleaning Company is a family owned and locally operated cleaning company. We provide industrial cleaning, corporate office cleaning, janitorial and porter services throughout Delaware Valley Metropolitan Area since 1983. Our professional cleaners are fully licensed, bonded and insured.
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