With a lot of people returning to the office, many companies have adopted a hybrid workplace. Even though this is a great way to ensure productivity while also keeping people safe, it is just as important to keep them clean. If hybrid workplaces are not kept clean, you increase the chances of people getting sick, which will harm the efficiency of your workplace.

If you have laboratories, it is important for you to keep them as clean as possible. There are several cleanroom standards you need to know, and you should use them as guidelines when you are putting together your cleaning methods and strategies. As you adjust to the new workplace environment, you must keep your cleaning strategies in mind.

With so many offices implementing hybrid workspaces, the likelihood of contamination is great. While there are many precautions and protocols being followed, employees, coworkers, and visitors may all contribute to the risks associated with returning to an in-person work environment. Although hybrid workspaces are a version of the traditional working model, rotating schedules and people coming in and out of the office multiple times per week can be problematic.

If you currently use more than one cleaning service provider, you could be creating an additional headache and incur higher costs than necessary. One service provider can tremendously simplify your life over using multiple service providers. If you’re using various cleaning service providers, read on, and you’ll be moving to a single provider by the end of this article.

The pandemic has changed everything, including how and where we work. State regulations have varied tremendously, resulting in multi-state companies often adopting the strictest restrictions and holding all offices to them for posterity. Most significant has been the health and safety of the employees, with considerations resulting in limited employee gatherings. No one ever expected retirement parties would be celebrated over Zoom. 

At no time in the last 25 years have semiconductors been more valuable than now. The global pandemic dramatically constrained supply, making it impossible for car manufacturers to build new cars. Every part of those silicon wafers in the lab is worth far more than three years ago. Valuable wafers must be disposed of for one reason more than any other - contaminants. Imagine having to dispose of a 300mm wafer worth $10,000 or more because some sub-micron particles are bridging circuits. If you’ve ever seen the inspection pictures from your lab’s scanning electron microscope or defect analysis group, you’ve seen what one tiny particle can do.

Cleanrooms are essential to your operation, and the classification needs to be in line with your business needs. The classification of your cleanroom is critical, especially for company clients intent on making sure they are getting the highest quality of a product. The ISO classification says more about your company than you might know.

Today's hybrid office environments need 21st-century cleaning solutions. 

Do you manage a hybrid workplace with many employees and coworkers? If so, how are you making sure that your workplace is clean enough to prevent the spread of viruses and germs?

Many office managers prefer using their own supplies to clean all the desks, chairs, and floors. However, they don’t understand that their staff and products are not always good enough to provide top-quality cleaning. Besides, your staff may fail to deliver commercial or corporate cleaning results without training. 

To avoid that, you need to stop relying on your own supplies for hybrid workplace cleaning. Instead, you should get cleaning services on board to do this job professionally for you. 

If you have a cleanroom at your workplace, you know from experience that the primary challenge is keeping your cleanroom contaminant-free. Going by the Federal standard 209E, cleanrooms should have a concentration of less than 0.5 micron per cubic meter of air particles. This means even the smallest airborne particles such as dust, skin particles, grease bacteria, fibers, fungi, human hair, viruses, and ions are hazardous to your cleanroom.