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5 Tips for Maintaining Light Office Carpets
There are all sorts of reasons why a business might choose to install white or light carpets. Bright, pale floor surfaces are brilliant at making rooms appear larger, airier and fresher. Fantastic for bringing a feeling of modernity and sleekness, using white...
3 Hygiene Hacks to Make Your Workplace Healthier
When there's a cold going around the office, it's probably only a matter of time before most of your staff are sneezing and coughing. Aside from ensuring employees stay away from the office when they are poorly, there are many ways employers can prevent the spread of...
3 Hidden Germ Hot-spots in Commercial Offices
Your workplace may look sparkling clean on the surface, but germs can hide anywhere. While keeping your office looking the part will impress clients and visitors, ensuring that your workplace is germ free will ensure your workforce stay healthy. Although the average...
How to Clean your Office Air Purifier
Air purifiers are fantastic for freshening up offices. These helpful devices filter all sorts of nasties out of the air in workplaces: from dust and pollen to smoke particles, mould spores and other allergen-causing particles. Air purification can help keep your...
Invigorate Your Commercial Office This Spring
Now that spring is here, it's the perfect time to give your workplace a fresh burst of energy. The winter months can leave us feeling gloomy and more than a little demotivated. Harnessing the changing seasons could really reinvigorate your business. With the...
How to Tidy Employee Workspaces (Marie Kondo-style)
Is your business premises chock-full of clutter and coffee cups? Businesses are busy places, which is why work areas can quickly become chaotic. If your office is client-facing however, all of this productivity can appear disorganised and downright off-putting. Time...
3 Ways to Make your Workplace Spark Joy
Does your workplace 'spark joy'? It’s highly likely that the answer is no, no matter how much you love your job. But Netflix's latest surprise hit might be able to help you introduce a little joyousness into your professional space. If you are one of the thousands of...
How to Reduce Plastic Waste in your Workplace
There hasn’t been an awful lot of positive environmental news on the front pages lately. In fact, a wave of troubling environmental stories has been hitting newsstands and digital headlines in recent months. Amongst other troubling stories has emerged the particularly...
How To Spruce Up Your New Business HQ (Before Moving In)
It's rare that former tenants leave business premises in mint condition. Even with a better-than-average predecessor, you'll probably have a few touch-ups to sort out and scrub downs to take care of. In a worst case scenario, you could have days of cleaning up to do...
How to Look After your Office Plants (& Why you Should Bother!)
Having plants in the office may seem like a nice idea, but all too often introducing them into a work environment goes awry. In many cases, after a few weeks, you may be left with a few shedding, drooping, browning clumps in the corner. This is a tale as old as time...
4 Rules to Live By for Cleaning the Office Dishwasher
If your place of work has a dishwasher, you'll know that this type of appliance can get pretty grimy when it's used communally. From overloading (which leaves all of your crockery in a nasty state) to stray pieces of food and nasty smells, there's a lot that can go...
How to Clean a Dog-Friendly Office
More and more offices are becoming dog-friendly, with employees' four-legged friends sometimes becoming part of the team. Whether your manager's pooch is a regular face round the water cooler, or your accountant's Dachshund commonly curls up near the photocopier on...
3 Cleaning Considerations for Solicitors’ Offices
Every business is unique. That means every office space they inhabit is different - and every cleaning routine they require is a little different too. Whether you work as an office manager in a solicitors' office, or a computer programmer at an IT company, your office...
How to Get Coffee Stains out of the Office Carpet
Are you an americano kind of person? Perhaps you're a flat white sort, or even a cortado lover. Whatever your rocket fuel of choice, coffee can rapidly become your least favourite drink once it comes into contact with a light-coloured carpet. Not only are coffee...
How to Prepare your Meeting Room for Visitors
The meeting room is often 'where the magic happens' for many businesses. Whether you're impressing potential clients, masterminding smart strategies that will take your company further or nurturing your team with inspiring training, meeting rooms help make it all...
5 Pieces of Cleaning Equipment No Business Should Be Without
Do you rely on your cleaning contractor to bring all the kit required to keep your premises clean? That just won't do! While relying on your cleaning team’s hoovers and surface sprays may be cost effective, it certainly isn't sensible. Whether it's a nasty spill or a...
The Employee’s Guide to Quickly Cleaning Your Desk
Take a look around you. Yes, you! Does your workspace leave you feeling clear-headed, focused and motivated? Or does it look like two neighbouring coffee and paper factories exploded? In the midst of the everyday flurry of work, it's easy for our desks to become a...
How to Make Your Workplace More Hygienic This Flu Season
Is your workplace full of coughs, sneezes and throat clearing at the moment? Colds and flu have been rampant this year, with 2018 proving to be one of the most contagious on record. The arrival of the so-called Australian flu (also known as H3N2), particularly, has...