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Positioning Your Desk Through Feng Shui
There are some places and rooms that immediately give off a positive energy. Try as we may to understand, the reasons for a good, welcoming vibe cannot always be easily appreciated. The same applies to places characterised by an uneasy or uncomfortable energy. Feng Shui principles explain why different feelings are experienced in different environments and, together with other practices – such as quality office cleaning, it can guide you in creating an inviting and effective work environment.
What is Feng Shui?
Feng Shui (pronounced ‘fung schway’) is an ancient Chinese art of placement and design that can influence and enhance the balance and flow of energy. Feng Shui has been a revered practice of many Chinese people for more than 3000 years and has been applied to help ensure that wealth and love are present in plentiful quantities.
Ensuring Your Office Stays Pest Free Over the Holidays
There’s nothing worse than coming back from holidays to a dishevelled office that’s infested with goodness knows what! To ensure you and your team don’t have to battle it out with nasties on your return to work after the Christmas break; you may want to take note of some of these useful tips. From having your commercial cleaning service do a thorough clean of the premises after every one’s left for the year – to cleaning out the office kitchen – we’re sure that if you follow these tips you won’t have any problems with pests on your return:
Clean Out the Office Kitchen
One thing people forget to do in the rush to get out the door before Christmas is clean out the office kitchen. This means packets of mouldy biscuits, rotten bananas and sandwiches that smell out the entire fridge. To stop rodents and other pests coming into your kitchen area, you need to keep it clean and tidy. Giving the kitchen a good once over before you leave for your holidays will help minimise the risk of coming back to cockroaches in the cupboards! If there’s nothing left in the cupboards or on the bench tops, they’ll be nothing to attract them there in the first place.
How to Cope with No Christmas Party Budget
Christmas time is filled with parties, events and getting together with good friends and family. It’s also a time of year when most workplaces use it as an opportunity to get together to celebrate the achievements of the year, and give everyone a chance to let their hair down. But what do you do if there’s no budget for the party this year? From organising an office event to remember and having your commercial cleaning service help you get things back to business the next day, we’ve got some great ideas that don’t require a massive budget:
Why not have an office party at your place of business?
Really, it’s just a matter of getting creative with how you set things up and allocating who brings what. Literally any office or boardroom can be turned into a great space for a Christmas event. You just need to make sure that you have afterhours access so that staff can get out later than usual when the party finishes.
How do you ask everyone to contribute?
Open Plan Office Etiquette
If you are working in an open plan office space, it’s important to be mindful of those around you. And while the commercial cleaning service might be in charge of keeping the office in sparkling clean condition, you still need to ensure your area is tidy and the space around you is clear. This is just one example of being courteous to your fellow workers in this type of working environment. Check out our full list below:
Be Mindful of People On the Phone
One important thing to remember, especially if you are working for a company that is always in touch with their customers via telephone, is to stay mindful of those who are on the phone. You may be finished for the day but the person next to you isn’t. Rather than yelling across the room to your friend about Friday drinks, walk over, and speak in a quiet voice so as not to disturb those around you who are still working and talking to customers.
6 Office Christmas Decorating Ideas
If your commercial cleaning service is likely to throw out your Christmas decorations because they’re in serious need of replacing, and look, well, a little rubbish, then you may want to check out some of our decorating ideas that will transform your office Christmas decorating efforts from drab to fab!
Choose a Theme
Sometimes what can really look great, and be a lot of fun too, is to choose a theme to go with Christmas. The theme you choose will obviously be influenced by your colleague’s and the industry you’re in. Here are some ideas:
- A Disney Christmas
- A Vegas Christmas
- A Winter Wonderland
- Santa’s Workshop
Why Outsourcing Your Office Cleaning is the Only Way to go
Getting a professional commercial cleaning service in to meet all of your office cleaning requirements really is the only way to go. Not only will it save you time and money, but it will also mean having an office that’s always in mint condition. Still not convinced? Read on.
Time is money
You don’t want to be scrubbing the toilets and washing the dishes as well as greeting important clients and neither does your receptionist. In fact, the cost of outsourcing to a cleaning company when compared to having your staff do the job doesn’t make sense because in the long run it would work out more expensive to have your employees dedicate their time to cleaning the office, as apposed to doing their job. Let your employees focus on their job and growing your business and leave the cleaning to the professionals.
Bathroom Etiquette
Some bathroom etiquette tips are almost like unspoken laws, so it can be hard to understand. Other things, however, are basically about treating the bathroom in your workplace as if you would your bathroom at home. From bathroom office cleaning tips to some of the subtleties of washroom etiquette, we cover everything no staff member sharing a bathroom with others, should miss:
The bathroom hog
We all know the type. They take ages in the toilet, who knows, they could have been texting, while you were politely trying to hold it as best you could. Once they finish up and get off the phone from mum they then take their time running the water in the basin at full throttle, before moving on to the hand dryer, ensuring that not one drop of water is left before leaving, making everyone else who is waiting to use the dryer give up and wipe their hands on their trousers. Not cool.