New year, fresh start! We might have all sworn to eat healthier and read more books in 2025, but how’s your office space looking? You might already have daily cleaning or weekly cleaning taking place – but it’s also worth focusing on a few key areas for a sparkling 2025.
Consider these new year resolutions for your office or commercial space cleaning right across New Zealand.
Cleaning Resolutions for Offices
While things slowly kick off in the new year, you have the opportunity to ensure all surfaces are sanitised and all maintenance is taken care off before the team returns in full. Plenty of teams book meetings in the new year to get up to speed on projects, so special attention might be needed to keep the office clean and hygienic. In particular:
- Check that work stations have been decluttered and sanitised with professional office cleaning
- Request a deep clean of boardrooms, kitchens and breakrooms, if this hasn’t been done already
- Book in maintenance and cleaning for high traffic areas such as foyer floors and corridors.
The new year is also the perfect time to adjust your small office cleaning or large office cleaning services to suit any changes to your requirements moving forward.
Cleaning Resolutions for Retail Spaces
Following the festive shopping rush and sales, you might find your retail space looking a little tired. The new year is the perfect time to ensure the following is booked in:
- Deep cleaning of front-of-store environments, change rooms and store rooms to leave every corner spotless
- Window and mirror cleaning to ensure streaks and smudges aren’t dulling the shine of your products
- A thorough sanitisation of high-touch areas such as point-of-sale terminals, handles and changeroom locks.
Successful retail facility cleaning attends to both the front-of-store environment and those behind the scenes, so make sure your daily and weekly cleans are covering the details.
Cleaning Resolutions for Healthcare Facilities
Depending on your healthcare facilities, you could be seeing a busy summer – or a quiet time that’s ideal for a refresh. Across the board, the new year is the perfect time to check in with:
- Compliance needs, and whether your daily and weekly cleaning schedule is meeting or exceeding these
- Infection control measures, and whether your cleaners are trained and equipped in medical-grade sanitisation standards
- Any specialised cleaning requirements such as special response surface disinfection, and whether your cleaner can provide them when needed.
These considerations are important for medical facility cleaning and day-hospital cleaning, but also for other sectors including aged care cleaning.
Cleaning Resolutions for Schools
While we’re on the topic of caring for people, if you’re responsible for nourishing young minds then consider these school cleaning points so students and teachers can walk into a beautifully fresh learning environment:
- Have your cleaners pay particular attention to areas that might not be frequently cleaned, such as ventilation systems, lockers in high schools, light fixtures and classroom supply closets
- Communicate any specific requirements for areas such as science labs or food service areas
- Consider deep cleaning of athletic facilities such as change rooms in the quieter and warmer months, to prevent bacterial growth and mould.
Don’t forget to review your regular cleaning schedule and, if needed, engage a new primary school, secondary school or private school cleaning company who will deliver to a site-specific cleaning plan.
Cleaning Resolutions for Warehouses and Industrial Facilities
While the individual cleaning needs vary across industrial cleaning and warehouse cleaning, there are some shared considerations for the new year:
- Pay attention to cleanliness and clutter in high-traffic areas that are important for safety and productivity, such as loading docks, production floors, and material handling zones
- Check in with your cleaning team and ensure you’re both on the same page when it comes to emergency response cleaning procedures for spills or contamination events
- Use those holiday-rested eyes to reassess work safety standards on the shop floor, and work with your cleaning team to make any necessary adjustments.
Working with the right business cleaning team is going to be key so you can optimise your cleaning schedules to minimise disruption while maintaining a productively clean working environment.
Freshen up your Commercial Space Cleaning in 2025
If the time has come to update your commercial cleaning services, AMC Commercial Cleaning delivers expert commercial and office cleaning in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and elsewhere in New Zealand. Contact us today for a free quote for your sector, from office cleaning services right through to sports and leisure cleaning.
