Tidyness is next to cleanliness

Office cleaning staff are often prohibited from moving business paperwork on desks, resulting in large desk areas not being cleaned.

Workstations then harbour bacteria, as they are missed from the regular cleaning cycle.

Wendy Peck, service support manager at Virgin Money, was concerned that untidy desks and dirty hardware would become a Health and Safety issue,with staff sickness caused by bacteria in areas that had not been cleaned in a long time.

Peck contacted IT cleaning company Keep I.T.Clean, whose specialism is the control of bacteria on computers, telephones and desk areas down to trace level. Arranging a site visit for the deep cleaning of office workstations served as a catalyst to encourage all employees to tidy their own work area to ensure the cost of an external IT cleaning company was not wasted.

Using bioluminescence technology, Keep I.T.

Clean was able to measure and prove that bacteria was effectively removed from any given workstation. In addition, the visit was a noticeable event and granted Peck the opportunity to create a new Tidy Desk policy, successfully enforced through frequent subsequent visits from Keep I.T.Clean.