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Cold and flu season is here in Southeastern Wisconsin, and the fastest way germs move through an office is by hand: door handles, light switches, coffee makers and shared phones. Daily disinfection of those high-touch points, built into a recurring five-day-a-week janitorial program, helps reduce the spread of germs and

Most offices judge their cleaning service in the first five minutes of the morning. The trash cans are empty, the restrooms smell fresh, and the break room counters are wiped down. Those basics matter, and a good nightly crew handles them every time. The details that build up slowly are

Ask ten office managers how often their space gets cleaned and most small offices will say “once a week.” It sounds sensible. A weekly visit, though, has to clear a full week of buildup, and the research on shared office surfaces shows that buildup returns far faster than seven days.

In a multi-tenant building, the lobby is the first thing every tenant, resident, visitor and prospective lessee sees. From November through March in southeastern Wisconsin, that lobby also takes the hardest hits: salt, slush, sand and meltwater tracked in hundreds of times a day. For property managers, condo associations and

Missed cleanings. Overflowing trash on Monday morning. A restroom that looks fine at first glance but never gets a real detail clean. If you manage a facility in the Milwaukee area, you’ve probably dealt with a cleaning provider that started out strong and then slipped. Changing janitorial companies takes time,

If the past three years have shown us anything, it’s that cleanliness is key to a happy and healthy work environment — but keeping the workplace clean isn’t as easy as it once was. Amid the current labor shortage, many businesses are having a hard time hiring cleaners. The U.S.