6 Essential Ways Your Cleaning Services Can Optimise Workplace Wellbeing and Productivity
Creating cleaner and safer buildings is good business sense.
In 2019, absenteeism cost the Australian economy an estimated $35 billion in wages and lost productivity. $90.4 million of that was caused by the flu virus spreading between workers.
Facility Managers and Cleaning Services across Australia successfully worked together to keep their employees and visitors safe by implementing COVID-safe cleaning protocols. It makes good business sense to build on this momentum and increase workplace wellbeing and productivity in 2021 and beyond.
One thing COVID-19 has highlighted is how important hygiene practices and cleanliness is to prevent illness caused by germs such as viruses and bacteria. These invisible threats are around us all the time. Although COVID-19 is at the end of the spectrum, every year we are exposed to some form of influenza that can take hold in your workplace, debilitating workforces, and productivity.
The “6 Essential Ways to Optimise Cleaning for Wellbeing and Productivity” whitepaper was developed to explore how cleaning can benefit the wellbeing of employees in the workforce and the effect it can have on productivity. Unclean and unhealthy buildings can make people unwell and unproductive, costing businesses money.
In 2019, absenteeism cost the Australian economy an estimated $35 billion in wages and lost productivity. $90.4 million of that was caused by the flu virus spreading between workers.
Productivity suffers when unwell staff remain in the workplace. The annual economic burden of “presenteeism” is estimated to be AUD 34 billion.
Poor performance and illness can also be caused by the building itself, from the surfaces we touch to the air we breathe. However, research has shown that improving indoor air quality (IAQ) and hygiene can reduce absenteeism and enhance performance and productivity.
As evidenced by rating requirements for both the WELL Building Standard and Green Star – Performance, cleaning plays an important role in workplace wellbeing.
Our whitepaper describes 6 strategies in which cleaning services can help optimize workplace wellbeing and productivity, via:
- Healthy surfaces
- Healthy air and
- Healthy hands.
You can download full whitepaper detailing the 6 strategies here.