Benefits of Day Cleaning

Healthcare facilities, schools and hotels have been day cleaning for decades, but the method can be implemented in any facility. The recent push for day cleaning has been mainly associated with commercial premises. Essentially, day cleaning is nothing more than moving janitorial services from the nightshift to the dayshift. When you take your janitorial department and have them clean during daylight hours while employees and guests are in the building, changes take place financially, environmentally, and culturally.

The good news is the changes are for the better. The cleaning shift switch can make an audible move toward positive changes.

Reduce Operating Costs

According to BOMA’s Building Energy Efficiency Program, after-hours janitorial work accounts for almost 25% of a business’s weekly lighting use, which comes to about 7% of total building energy use (Mychele Lord, 2008). Yet, while lights are the most obvious energy-drain associated with night cleaning, there are other factors to consider, too such as the life of light bulbs and ballasts, elevator use, HVAC systems, and extra security costs. When a building operates during the night, it goes through energy-related consumables more quickly and leads to more frequent maintenance. Also, you need more security guards to watch the nightshift cleaning staffs.

When you move the janitorial services to dayshift,  extra labour costs related to maintenance and security drop. Cleaning during the day saves more money compared to nightshift. The use of lights requires by the cleaning staff can be off for all or most of the night. That is the vital move to reduce energy costs and keep bulbs and ballasts last longer.

Reduce Carbon Footprint

Consultants report that day cleaning can save buildings between 4 and 8 per cent on energy costs, a year (Lisa Ridgley, 2014). It also lessens a building’s environmental footprint. For this reason, day cleaning is becoming part of business’ corporate responsibility and environmental management strategies.  When cleaning a full building during the daytime, special care has to be given to the choice of cleaning products.

Certified green cleaning products must not be environment-friendly only, but for indoor air quality and human health as well. Day cleaning may be a catalyst for janitorial departments to make the switch to cleaning products that give employees’ respiratory systems a break.

Enhance Overnight Security

Security concerns increase at night after business hours while day cleaning is safer for both the cleaners and the building. Cleaners are less vulnerable to security threats when they work in the daytime with everyone else in the building. Besides, the building is more secure when people aren’t exiting and entering during the night. When the cleaners are no longer working in the building at night, alarm systems and security guards can be more effective. Security guards can be certain that no doors should leave unlocked or left open when they don’t have to consider the presence of cleaners.

Increase Employee Confidence

People feel more confident about a building’s cleanliness when they see it being cleaned physically rather than wondering if it was being done. Even if they know, logically, that the building is cleaned at night, actually seeing the work performed during the operating hours has a profound psychological affect. Moreover, people like being able to know the cleaning staff personally. This leads to employees being more respectful of their space and the building. If you know the cleaning staff, you are more likely to be considerate and make sure all your trash is in the bin before she comes by, or you’ll clean up your spilt coffee in the kitchen because you respect her and her time.

While opponents of day cleaning argue that the cost savings of day cleaning aren’t worth the hazards and interruptions like wet floors, closed bathrooms, loud vacuums and so on, these problems can be solved. With proper scheduling, including starting tasks before employees arrive and keeping regular and predictable bathroom cleaning times to manage the problems. The safety and comfort of employees do not have to be sacrificed when making the switch to the day cleaning.

When a daytime cleaning routine is executed properly, most employees report that they feel as though the building is cleaner. Psychologically, being able to see the cleaners at work and even getting to know them individually, has a significant impact on employees’ confidence about the quality of cleaning.

There are several ways how a clean workplace affects the quality of work of your employees. Although this isn’t the first thing to come into people’s minds, cleanliness is an important factor to consider in employee well-being. The simple act of maintaining a clean workplace does the job quite well.

Reduce Cleaner Turnover

Night cleaning makes janitorial work unrecognised and the hours are often incompatible with family life. Day cleaning, however, offers cleaners more full-time jobs with hours that allow them to spend time with family. And being personally thanked by the building’s occupants goes a long way toward job satisfaction, too. Happier employees mean less turnover, which means stabilized cleaning services and less labour and resources spent on hiring and training.

Improve Response Time

Having cleaning staff present during the day allows them to ensure that high-traffic areas, such as washrooms and lobbies, are cleaned as needed. You can get better results in these areas since you now have the full contingent of janitorial staff during the day, not just the day porter. Small problems can be taken care of before they become larger issues. For instance, the lobby can be cleaned multiple times during rainy weather to prevent more permanent damage from occurring. A faster response time to take care of full garbage bags and unclean restrooms improves the cleanliness and health of your building.

Cleaning Services By ATALIAN

A professional janitorial service reduces the hassle of removing the daily grime from your facility. Employees, customers and visitors can easily spread illness by simply touching surfaces such as desks, computer keyboards and door handles. Regular professional office cleaning that includes dusting, vacuuming, mopping and other cleanings can improve the health of your work environment as it reduces the presence of bacteria, germs, and allergens in the workplace. By outsourcing a professional cleaning company like ATALIAN, you can enjoy these benefits.

• Healthier work environment
• The better first impression for customers, visitors and guests
• Less hassle
• Accommodates your business schedule
• Clean done right the first time

When our cleaning professionals combine their expertise, we have more than 90 years of experience in the industry, with technologically advanced equipment and high-quality cleaning products. We promise to get the job done for you right the first time. Contact us today to have a tailored cleaning solution for your facility.