Headcount matters less than you would think. What sets office cleaning frequency is foot traffic, whether food is eaten at desks, and how many people share each restroom. A twelve-person studio with a kitchen can need more than a forty-person floor without one.
Most offices are on a schedule someone picked years ago and nobody has revisited since the team changed size or the hybrid pattern settled.
What needs daily attention regardless
- Restrooms — sanitised and restocked, every single service day
- Kitchens and break rooms, if food is prepared or eaten there
- Bins, wherever food waste ends up
- Reception and entry glass, which is the first thing a visitor forms an opinion from
What can run less often
- Desk surfaces in a hybrid office where half the seats are empty on any given day
- Meeting rooms, unless they are booked back to back
- Interior glass and partitions
- Floors in low-traffic zones — vacuuming twice a week is usually enough away from the entrance
Facility type changes the floor
Restaurants and medical spaces are not offices with different furniture. They carry higher standards, more frequent service, and in our pricing a surcharge that reflects the additional work rather than the additional risk. Retail sits between the two, with the entrance doing most of the wear.
Why per-square-foot beats per-hour
An hourly contract makes a slow night cost you more and gives nobody a reason to finish. Pricing on area means an overrun is the company's problem, and the monthly invoice does not move because a crew hit traffic.
Reviewing the schedule
Twice a year, or whenever headcount or the hybrid pattern changes by more than a fifth. Most offices discover they are paying for a frequency they set when the team was a different shape.
