Here’s our top three tips to getting your office workplace in the spring cleaning spirit!

1.De-Clutter

Look around your desk right now. Chances are – barring the compulsive tidiers in the audience – you’ve got some stuff that simply doesn’t need to be there; envelopes from the post this morning, notes that you’ve since typed up, some old business cards – in an office, the list of clutter is nearly endless.

So, start with the things right in front of you – put old bits of post straight in the bin, file away the important things on your desk and scrap all those waste bits of paper you use to make notes whilst on the phone.

But don’t just stop above the desk – have a look through your desk drawers for things you really don’t need, and get rid of them! As an office cleaning company in London, we find the biggest cause of in-desk clutter is promotional tat from conferences and expositions – if you’ll never use it, bin it or give it to someone who will!

2. Disinfect

Just as beauty is only skin-deep, your office’s cleanliness can only be surface-clean!

Alongside getting the duster and furniture polish out, add a disinfecting regimen in to your office cleaning schedule and you’ll really thank yourself by the time summer hits!

Anything that your hand comes in to contact with (phones, mice, keyboards, door handles etc.) should be given the once-over with a disinfectant wipe or cleaner at least once a week.

For those of you who hot-desk, we’re sure you’d appreciate knowing that the phone you’re going to be using all day has been given a thorough once-over after used by someone else yesterday!

If you’re guilty of eating at your desk, make sure that your keyboard is blasted with some compressed air, too, to make sure that any crumbs are dislodged. Anyone with allergies or sensitive sinuses that uses your keyboard will be able to breath a little easier knowing that there isn’t debris being dispersed under their nose with every keystroke!

3. Rejuvenate

Every office has at least on set of files that are in desperate need of some TLC.

So, why not make it your Spring Office Cleaning mission to give them a new home? Whether they’re old directories, contracts or spreadsheets, the chances are if they’ve hung around this long, they’re important.

Re-organise them into fresh ring-binders, insert particularly old information into plastic wallets and condense down anything that’s taking up too much room. They whole office will be grateful knowing that there’s a little more elbow room and shelf space being created.

Whilst likely to take a chunk out of your day, studies have shown that cleaner workplaces with less clutter increase the productivity of the staff that work in them, so you’ll probably make that time up over the rest of the week!

That is it for now but stay tuned for more office cleaning tips here at Total Clean Office Cleaning London!

Introducing Comvert an Italian skate and snowboard company based in Milan which sells gear under the brand name Bastard.

Comvert initial concept was to create a workplace where they would have all in one place. The office, a flagship store, warehouse and why not a place to test some of their gear. That is when the idea of building a skateboarding bowl come to mind.

But how to build a skateboarding bowl without using all the physical space needed for the office, store and warehouse? Simple, by suspending the bowl from the ceiling and that is exactly what Italian design firm Studiometrico did for Comvert.

They found a 1950’s 6.600m3 Cinema theatre and converted into one of the coolest places to work in Europe and why not in the world.

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Cradle to some of Google’s most important projects like voice search, personalised local search and the most popular Android and iPhone apps the place was designed with only one thing in mind: Inspiration.

From corridors inspired on the insides of the SS Enterprise to a “coffee lab” with nothing less than 19 different blends of coffee Google’s London headquarters in Victoria is one of the trendiest workplaces in the world.

Since an image is worth a thousand words, here are a few thousands words to describe this incredible workplace:

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World’s Coolest Offices

Red Bull’s UK HQ interior design was created with what Red Bull is all about, hyperactivity and adrenaline-overload. Instead of stairs there are slides, yes slides, to move from one floor to another and ping pong table meeting rooms to let the energy flow.

Built in the top 3 storeys of an existing 19th century office, the place is decorated with bright colours and dynamic shapes in a layout to encourage cheerful interaction between employees without loosing the brand’s strong values.

Visitor’s ascend from the street by elevator and enter via a rooftop reception lobby overlooking London’s West End. The main reception has a bar and cafe on the same floor there are also formal and informal meeting rooms.

As the saying goes let’s see some pictures of this unique office space that I bet any office cleaner in London would love to work there.

Rooftop Entrance with West End view

Furniture with bright colours and dynamic shapes

If I win my project is approved!

Front Desk

Yupie!

Recently we compiled a list with what we think are the World’s Coolest Offices and now decided to keep on our quest for more cool offices but this time we will focus only in Europe.

We start our series with Nykredit’s Office in Copenhagen. Nykredit is one of Europe’s leading financial services providers with commercial and mortgage banking as cornerstones. In addition, Nykredit has activities within insurance, pension and estate agency business.

The ten-storey glass structure is one of Copenhagen’s largest and coolest office buildings. The building features glass elevators, balconies, and exposed stairways, creating an open and clean-looking work environment. It also has state-of-the-art insulation systems that captures and hold heat while it is cooled with water from a nearby harbour not to mention the options to open specific areas of the roof and double layered facade to allow natural ventilation.

But it’s the meeting rooms that make this office stand-out. Nykredit’s office has meeting rooms that hang 50ft above ground which give a new meaning to “high-fly business meetings”.

There are two of these “high-fly” meeting rooms made out of dark polished wood hanging inside Nykredit’s office building. Their office cleaning company must have really though cleaners that are not afraid of heights to clean those hanging boxes.

About Nykredit

Images from this article where sourced from a Daily Mail Article

Back in July we reported that the demand for Grade A offices in the metropolis would boost office cleaning in London. This is starting to happen as more and more overseas companies seek for an office space in renowned regions such as the City of London and Canary Wharf, as well as high-end places such as Westminster.

According to Ian Smith London Chamber of Commerce and Industry spokesman there are other emerging areas and projects that London office cleaning companies should keep an eye on, he remarked:

“You’ve got the Olympic site and the surrounding area and there’s hopefully the Northern line extension,”

Another area London office cleaners should keep a close eye on is on the construction of the Bath House complex that is being built on Holborn Viaduct in the centre of the city. The £65 million project will have a myriad of luxury offices, leisure areas, a retail zone as well as a car park.

But it is not only on the high end that office cleaning is on the rise in London. According to Mr Smith, more and more businesses are moving into buildings in cheaper parts of the city such as Croydon and Enfield.

One way or the other this is all good news for London office cleaning companies.

Red Bull UK Headquarters in London

Forget stairs and lifts to move from one floor to another, Red Bull’s UK HQs in London has slides, another innovative creation by interior design company Jump Studio. The place also has a bar, cafe and a roof top terrace.

Facebook Studio O+A California

The social media giant also has one of the coolest offices in the world, located in Palo Alto in sunny California. The place was designed according to poll results conducted amongst employees.

Besides the sleek furniture and funky décor the place as a unique sound system with a complete DJ booth to cause envy in many clubs around the globe. Believe it or not the place has its own Facebok Page.

Good Technology HQ in London

Good Technology headquarters in London is an award-winning office designed by interior whizzes Spacelab. The place was designed mixture of old-fashioned gentleman’s club luxury and modern practical workspace, all that to bring the best out of their staff.

Good’s office is so cool that employees end up staying after hours to socialise round the office pool table.

Comvert Office in Milan, Italy

In my opinion one of the coolest offices I have ever seen simply because it was a skateboarding bowl over it. Comvert is an Italian based manufacturer of snowboards, clothing and accessories developed by skateboarders and snowboarders for all the young people out there.

Their new office was built inside an old movie theatre large enough to hold the admin area, a store, products depot and over it a state-of-the-art wooden skateboarding bowl.

TBWA/Chiat/Day LA Office

Gargoyles, cafe with a balcony made with old surf boards, a basketball court and a small garden make the TBWA/Chiat/Day office in LA one of the most trendy and inspirational places to work.

With more than 274 offices in 100 countries TBWA is amongst the top ten advertising agencies and its employees must be on top of their game at all times, reason why the LA is so inspirational.

Nike’s UK headquarters

Another Jump Studios creation Nike’s headquarters in the UK has a sleek, clean and modern design. The walls are packed with match balls and every where you look there is a high def telly showing the latest games, a dream come true for sports-fans.

Bahnhof Office in Stockholm, Sweden

Located 30 metres below the surface the Bahnhof office and data centre in Stockholm, Sweden looks more like Dr Evil’s hideout place. The place used to be an old nuclear bunker and now is one of the most unique workplaces in the world.

Greenhouses, artificial waterfalls, German submarine engines used for backup power, simulated daylight emphasize that. The place is sealed from the outside world by a 16 inches thick doors capable of withstand a hydrogen bomb explosion.

Google’s Stress Free Office in London

We have already talked about Google’s refurbished London HQs, please read Google’s Stress Free Office in London.

GooglePlex

Last but not least we have GooglePlex, the global headquarters of the search giant. To describe all the features Google provides its employees would require a whole article. Basically the place has everything an employee could ask for, free food, games room, cafes, swimming pool and a design to inspire even the less creative of all employees.

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Relaxation areas, games room, corridors inspired on the insides of the SS Enterprise, meeting rooms with sofas and loads of cushions make it one of the trendiest work environments in the world. A dream come true to any employee not to mention an office cleaning company.

Nelson Mattos, Google’s Vice President of Engineering, said: ‘We hire the brightest and best engineers in the UK and put them together in a highly creative, relaxed and exciting environment.’

The office has four FREE restaurants including a tapas and sushi bar and a “coffee lab” with nothing less than 19 different blends of coffee.

Labelled L4, this dream come true office also has a gym, games room with pool table and gaming consoles as well as a sound-proofed music room with drums and guitars.

Mattos adds: ‘Contrary to accepted wisdom, fun offices don’t hurt. Our experience is that a comfortable, open and fun environment encourages creativity and openness.

‘Open spaces make chance interactions more likely and chance interactions often lead to the greatest ideas.

‘Many of our products came from unrelated teams finding out about each other’s work and physically meeting to discuss fresh approaches.’

Google’s London office one of the corner stones of its global operation. Voice search, personalised local search and the most popular Android and iPhone apps were created in there.

Recently Google announced a new service that will boost the cleaning industry but image landing a contract with the search giant to clean that state-of-the-art office.

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Despite all the privacy concerns and complaints I find Google Street View one of the most useful tools offered by the search engine giant. Getting a glimpse of a place you have never been before or been once and don’t quite remember it, it is quite useful.

Now Google wants to offer the same kind of service to shoot inside commercial buildings that request the new service. This new service with no name yet will be a mixture of Google Street View with Google’s Art Project, which recorded famous paintings and art works from 17 museums around the globe.

For the cleaning industry this could mean more business since business owners who request such service will want to tidy up their establishments before they are filmed. Commercial and Office Cleaners in London are already preparing themselves for a possible surge in work since London is one of the first cities to be included in the initial phase of the this new service.

There are already talks about privacy issues but Google made it quite clear that the service will be completely voluntary and advise participating outlets must forewarn customers they are going to be filmed.

Another piece of news from Google that is causing a stir on London’s office cleaning companies is the new ten-year lease the Internet giant signed for a huge seven-storey office building in the East End of the capital. So far no London office cleaning company has been hired but I bet there are thousands of quotes on the desk of whoever is in charge of making such decision.

Entitled Cleaners for Causes, this “charitable cleaning company” started off by offering retail dry cleaning services to charity shops but it is no expanding its range of business to offices and industrial centre around the North East of England.

Cleaners for Causes director Craig Heathcote said:

“We’ve been working with local charities for some time and, having spoken with their corporate supporters, it was obvious to us that there was demand for a professional and well-priced service that drove charitable revenue, built charitable awareness and met corporate social responsibility goals.

“Our service vehicles can visit all manner of workplaces, from offices to industrial sites and village garages, picking up clothing, curtains, covers and work wear, so any firm or employee can get involved, no matter how small.

“Our billing systems also allow us to produce a bespoke invoice that tracks how much each individual customer is raising for St Oswald’s Hospice, or whichever charity they’re supporting.”

It sure is an honourable way to do business but I don’t think the trend will catch with office cleaning companies here in London. But it wouldn’t put London office cleaning companies out of business just for doing the odd cleaning job to raise money to their local charity.

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