Offices are magnets for dust. Paper brings with it small dust particles, with open shelves there are perfect hiding places for dust grains in folders that want to escape the vacuum cleaner and wipes of the cleaning people. If you pull out these folders, small clouds of dust scurry through the office and prefer to settle on electronic devices (they simply find electrostatics attractive).
Or they crumble as dust bunnies in dark corners under the desk, behind the door or in the corner between the shelf and the wall, where no vacuum cleaner nozzle, no matter how narrow, fits. There they lurk for the right moment to crawl out and spread as much embarrassment as possible. For example, if the boss or the most important customer unexpectedly snows in.
How to save this situation, turn the chaos into order in a flash and drive dust mice out of their lairs? We have collected a few tips for you on how to get the office in shape in the shortest possible time, at least visually, in order to make a good impression. One simple solution is to hire the office cleaning specialist Erhvervsrengøring. And the other is to take care of your office by yourself.
1. Create superficial order quickly
If you have a lockable cupboard, you should first banish desk accessories that are too private, such as an extensive photo collection, the rubber ducky and the collection of pencils that are too short or unsuitable pens, behind doors or in (if possible also lockable) drawers. The same fate should befall all paperwork that they can’t quickly and neatly stow away on open shelves.
Remove used mugs, glasses or plates from your desk or computer table and place them in the dishwasher. Also empty the trash at the same time.
2. Clean glass surfaces
Windows with rain stains and screens with dust fur immediately make an unkempt impression. A window squeegee and a microfiber cloth (or a small terry towel) do a good job here: Wipe the panes briskly with half of the microfiber cloth that has been dampened. Then use the window squeegee to remove the water from top to bottom (catch it with the microfiber cloth so that the floor does not get dirty water stains). Now use the dry half of the cloth to polish away the remaining drops of water – done.
For screens, you should always have screen cleaning wipes ready and use them. If there are framed photos on the desk, they also deserve a quick polish – kissing lips or finger datschers in the photo of your loved one or children
might seem a bit too intimate when viewed from the eyes of others?
3. Clean keyboard and mouse
White keys and white mice in particular like to get a gray haze of finger grease and dust – that immediately looks unhygienic. Keyboard cleaning tissues or a microfiber cloth moistened with a few drops of water quickly remove the greyish traces of your dexterity.
4. Prepare chairs
Do your office chair and visitor’s chair look like they were last sat on by Noah on the Ark because so many clouds of dust settled on them? Or has the office cat shed its winter fur there? Or did the last visitor snow the backrest with scales?
You should remove hair and lint from the visitor’s chair and place it strategically right away: at the conference table with a view of the clean window. Provide a clean coffee cup, a glass of water and a few biscuits, that looks inviting. Of course, your own office chair should also be given a quick cleaning.
5. Indoor air: from fug to scent
If it smells fresh in the office, it immediately looks cleaner than when the air is musty and stale. Thorough ventilation would be ideal, but sometimes it’s too windy or there’s too much exhaust fumes blowing in. Then a subtle air freshening spray will help, preferably made from natural oils and not the artificial toilet refreshment spruce needle cocktail.
Essential oils from citrus fruits have a mood-enhancing and mentally invigorating effect. You can also drip them onto handkerchiefs, which are strategically placed around the room and waved around a bit to enhance the office’s scent mark.