Spotless Spaces: Before and After

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We have all experienced the wonder of walking into a newly cleaned house, whether we just had cleaners come to our home or put on the gloves ourselves and got to work cleaning and organizing our living space over the weekend. While cleaning may be a seemingly trivial task, its benefits are proven through countless research studies, which makes sense for one of the oldest and largest professions in the world. We have all heard powerful people speak about the benefits of making your bed in the morning, countless CEOs, Navy SEALS, self-help gurus, Presidents, Congressman, etc. discuss this simple practice. Sometimes this may even seem a bit patronizing, simply making our beds can’t possibly be that influential in helping us reach our goals and dreams! But there are many studies indicating that this small habit improves sleep, organization, mental health, clarity & function, etc. Having a nice tidy made bed in your bedroom is a nice little steppingstone on the path to success. 

In our commercial cleaning industry, the principles that apply to the wonder of a nicely cleaned home, a made bed, or a clean kitchen are very much applicable to your professional work environment. After all, as people are returning from working from home, many of us are spending more and more time in the office. A clean working space not only improves company morale, but it enhances productivity. It helps establish positive attitudes and habits in your workforce, and it also demonstrates to employees that you care about their well-being. It might even boost those stubborn and reluctant employees returning to the office after working from home to feel a little bit more incentivized to be back in the office. In many ways the working environment provided to your employees establishes a branding for your company, you want your employees to want to be in the office working alongside you, and so do we! Obviously, this applies to clients as well, if your employees take pride in the building they work in they will be more likely to host clients in the office, it is one of the easiest ways to make an immediate impression on current or potential clients. To put it simply in another way, we do this in our own personal hygiene as well, we shower, shave, and put on some nice clothes to present the best version of ourselves when we arrive at work. Why not practice these same habits in your work environment?

While some may look at the cleaning profession as a dirty job or menial task, we take great pride in making a living through the enhancement of other people’s lives. With the holidays approaching, accompanied by New Years resolutions, goals, and good habits to be implemented, there is not a better time to start taking the appearance of your office space and company morale seriously. Altos Building Maintenance is here to help you do just that. 

Just enter janitorial services near me commercial cleaning near me janitorial service near me into a google search here in Silicon Valley, we service areas like San Jose Santa Clara Mountain View Sunnyvale Cupertino Los Altos and the entire South Bay. 

It’s no secret that the pandemic has been hard on small businesses. A quick look at how the corporate conglomerates have performed during this unprecedented time will tell you one thing: the rich get richer. In our cleaning services industry, which encompasses commercial cleaning services, janitorial services, commercial office cleaning, facilities services, building maintenance services, etc. working with a small company like Altos Building Maintenance can have a lot of distinct advantages:

1) Pride of ownership: Our small business needs to provide the best service possible because it is a direct reflection on OUR company, as opposed to a large company that is just paying someone a salary to represent THEIR company, we represent ourselves which is why we take pride of ownership in everything we do. We don’t have to be afraid and defensive about issues that are brought to our attention, because we are our own boss, we can just focus on providing solutions instead of worrying about a complaint or issue making its way up the corporate chain of command and the associated consequences. 

2) Flexibility and personalization: Everything is more personalized. We are very flexible in providing both scheduled and emergency disinfecting services, carpet cleaning (steam cleaning, bonnet cleaning, carpet extraction, stain removal), hard floor maintenance (machine polish, deep clean, grout cleaning, strip and wax), day porter and night services, multi-tenant building services, emergency services, small repairs, lighting replacement, electrostatic spraying, sanitize and disinfect high touch point areas, and pretty much anything cleaning related that you will need. We also have several companies we work with as sub-contractors for plumbing, electrical work, painting, some construction projects, large scale repairs, etc. We take pride in being a comprehensive facilities maintenance company. Basically, we can handle anything facilities related for you, and if we can’t do it we will find someone who can. We are a reliable, comprehensive facilities maintenance company. 

3) Communication: is important in any business but especially in ours. You won’t be dealing with a corporate chain of command; where sometimes dozens of people need to be involved to have a clear picture of the objective, and there needs to be approvals at each level. Instead, you are dealing with the business owners who have extra incentive to prioritize your needs. Chances are that you have never met the CEO or owners of your large-scale commercial cleaning company, and if you have, it was just to sign a commercial cleaning contract. 

4) Responsiveness: We have found that we are more available to get to clients faster, it takes less time to write up and send out proposals, and billing is simple and easier. We have loyalty to our clients and we are available at a moment's notice to respond to any facilities related issue that a client may be having: it could be a toilet overflowing, large-scale water leak, or someone getting sick on the carpet. We respond rapidly and efficiently and our clients know they can call us to handle short notice facilities related issues. 

5) Our employees: Because we are family owned, we have better employees working for us: we have an incredibly low employee turnover rate for our industry (more efficient labor, better relationships with employees (spanning decades), and you won’t be seeing a revolving door of janitors at your facilities). We understand the value created by their work and that is why they take pride in the work they do, we work directly with our employees to solve facilities related issues, and they don’t just feel like a cog in a machine. This also makes our training practices more efficient and communication with supervisors is enhanced. 

6) Relationships: you are much more likely to have a long-lasting relationship with supervisors, employees, and obviously the owners because they are less likely to accept other positions, move for a new position, or accept a different position in another branch of the company. You also have clearer picture of a small company’s operating procedures and a more intimate relationship with your facilities maintenance company and the employees that you are communicating with. 

7) Prioritization: your business and its facilities needs are the priority, not lost in the shuffle among several other high-profile clients. Your business is appreciated, and it shows when you are working with a family run small business. 

Not to mention that you are helping local businesses and people in your community instead of large well-established corporations and overpaid executives. It turns out that bigger is not always better.