Varying in shape and size, office areas are often busy and crowded environments containing a range of surfaces and equipment that makes cleaning challenging. Cleaning requirements will differ depending on the environment, but offices are usually home to large quantities of hidden germs across individual workstations and communal areas alike, spreading infection very easily in between people and places.

New flexible working systems, such as hotdesking, has also created new challenges for many offices, and cleaning strategies too have had to adapt to these new requirements. Research has shown that working environments have a big impact on the productivity of employees, with disorganised or dirty surroundings negatively affecting the way people work and feel.

In education environments in particular, the state of the surroundings can have a direct effect not only on students’ health and wellbeing, but also their academic progress. Tidy and organised areas facilitate students’ success, as well as the success of the institution itself, ensuring favourable results in inspections and audits.