If you have a business that requires its own premises to trade from - no matter whether those premises are offices or warehouses - the chances are very high that you pay for a commercial cleaning company to come in and make sure they are kept to a high standard of cleanliness every day.

But are you paying for the right amount of services?

It's true that everyone is responsible for how their working area looks, and if there is rubbish lying on the floor you should pick it up yourself rather than waiting for a cleaner to come and do it, purely because it's 'their job'. But that same kind of thinking shouldn't underlie your approach to what cleaning services you need to have, because not every employee will have that same pro-active approach to their work space.

The basic kind of cleaning tasks you could have would probably be to make sure the floors and the toilets are cleaned at the end of every day, but there may well be other services that would make a huge difference to the work environment that you and your employees are walking into every day.

For example, if you only have a small office and half a dozen employees then enlisting the services of a cleaning team for an hour or so every night would probably be enough to meet your needs. But if your offices are spread over two or three floors and you have well over a hundred employees then those same services are clearly not going to be enough.

As such, it is vital to keep a close eye on your office cleaning services as your company expands and grows over time, because if you try to cut corners by not making changes to your requirements then it could cost you in more ways than one over the long term.

It's tempting to try and save money in an area like this when you are expanding your business, but if your clients regularly come to see you they will judge your business on more than just the service you offer. If your housekeeping standards are not impeccably high then it is reasonable to assume that those same lax standards will apply to all the areas of your business - even if that actually isn't true.

As you can see, as far as cleaning is concerned trying to keep your costs down can actually be a false economy, since the results you get from hiring a responsible and dedicated cleaning company are there for everyone to see, and if those results are good ones then they reflect well on the rest of your business.

It's also obvious that you need to make sure you employ a top quality cleaning team to ensure that all your needs are met without any problems at all. The best team will also be able to advise you on aspects of cleaning that you may not have thought about, giving you an even better end result in the process.