Outsourcing your businesses cleaning services comes with several advantages, including reduced operational costs and increased worker productivity.
The Advantages of Outsourcing Your Office Cleaning Services
Outsourcing your office or classroom cleaning services has several advantages, including:
- Reduced operational cost.
- Increased efficiency and productivity.
- Improved facility health and safety.
- Risk elimination, and;
- Improved occupant morale.
Reducing Operational Costs
Regardless of how your organization's cleaning services are completed, you're going to incur operational expenses.
Some of the most prohibitive costs will come in the form of:
- Training - Commerical custodians routinely use toxic chemicals which require ongoing training for handling, use, disposal, and exposure-response. Outsourcing your cleaning needs eliminates the requirement of directly funding ongoing product and equipment training, and;
- Paid Time Off - In-house staff is entitled to paid time off, which will require your organization to hire additional workers to cover the downtime, forego the services during that period, or leverage other staff to pick up the slack. Outsourcing to a franchise cleaning team eliminates this expense by providing a substitute team at no additional cost.
Past research has estimated a business can reduce operational costs by as much as 60% by replacing in-house cleaning staff with contracted labor.
Increased Efficiency and Productivity
Outsourcing your organization's cleaning requirements allows you to focus labor and capital resources towards business-specific tasks.
In-house cleaning services require:
- Some type of dedicated office space for the custodial staff.
- Dedicated storage facilities to keep cleaning products and equipment, and;
- Ongoing management oversight.
Conversely, a contracted cleaning company will provide its cleaning supplies, is answerable directly to its management, and does not require you to dedicate expensive office space for their use.
In simpler terms, your organization is no longer dedicating valuable resources towards a task that does not directly contribute toward targeted productivity and output.
Improved Facility Health and Safety
Untrained or poorly motivated in-house staff are often unaware of the risks associated with cleaning product handling due to insufficient training, knowledgeable oversight, and a general lack of dedication toward providing a high-level of facility cleanliness, leading to an unhealthy and unsafe working or learning environment.
These issues can easily lead to:
- Occupant exposure to toxic chemicals, potentially leading to severe life-long health issues or death.
- Reduced occupant engagement and performance due to exposure to indoor air pollution and volatile organic compounds, and;
- Exposure to illness (or worse) causing germs and bacteria due to poorly executed cleaning procedures--specifically surface cross-contamination.
Outsourced franchise cleaning businesses are highly accountable and financially invested in the successful partnership with your organization.
Additionally, they are regularly exposed to far more industry-specific information regarding the safe use and efficacy of cleaning products and equipment.
By far and large, this relationship leads to the use of safer products and practices, which has been shown in numerous studies to have a direct impact on the performance of building occupants in any environment.
Risk Elimination
Research continues to pile up, identifying the janitorial services as one of the more hazardous jobs in any typical business.
Reasons include:
- Hazardous slip and fall working conditions--specifically wet floors and cleaning from an elevated position.
- Health issues derived from long-term chemical exposure, and;
- The potential liability of poisoning or other physical harm.
Each of these risks carries the cost of insurance and liability insurance--increasing the cost of maintaining in-house staff and reducing an organization's resources which could be dedicated towards increasing productivity and expanding productive capacity.
Improved Occupant Morale
Maintaining an in-house cleaning crew is challenging enough, and often suffers from a high level of employee turnover, further contributing to overhead costs and poor low-quality output--but leveraging regular staff for facility-wide cleaning duties, as opposed to encouraging a well-kept working or learning space, negatively impacts morale and performance, leading to a host of issues, including:
- An unsafe facility likely covered in germs and bacteria that routinely make everyone sick.
- Pissed off employees who are probably wholly disengaged from the task they were hired to perform, and;
- A poorly performing business, especially when compared to one outsourcing to a provider specializing in green cleaning and eco-friendly services.
Takeaway
The concept of outsourcing often carries unfortunate negativity, due to it being misconstrued as providing sub-par service, or the idea of allowing strangers onto your property and into your facility, usually at night and unsupervised.
However, studies have routinely shown that outsourcing to a high-performance provider contributes significantly towards improved business and scholarly output at a reduced cost.
If you would like to find out more about the numerous advantages of outsourcing your classroom or office cleaning requirements--contact us today for a free quote!
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