Reliable, Effective Consistent Office Cleaning Services Could Be Yours
Reliable, effective, consistent office cleaning services shouldn’t be the magical unicorn of building services, the thing you’ve heard about but don’t believe exists.
As a Facility Manager, you deserve to have a professional, capable office cleaning service in your facility. If you are suffering with a less than optimal office cleaning company, you probably dream about how better commercial office cleaning services could keep your building looking its best and make your life easier.
No more fires to put out, no more missed items, no more steady stream of complaints. But exceptional office cleaners don’t have to be a dream, they can be a reality.
There are professional office cleaning companies ready, willing and able to offer you the professional level of service you and your facility deserve and they aren’t even THAT hard to find.
Why Finding the Right Commercial Office Cleaning Can Seem So Elusive
Finding the right office cleaning company can sometimes seem like an impossibility right?
The office cleaning marketplace is a crowded one and there are so many sizes and types of office cleaning companies, not all ready and willing to deliver their best in your facility.
Often office cleaning companies want your business whether they are skilled enough to handle it is entirely different.
Do they have good people? Do they price their services transparently, are they fully insured? Do they ascribe to industry best practices? Do they train their teams well? Do they have quality assurance measures in place?
There are hundreds of questions you could ask to try to find those few office cleaning services truly up to the job.
But trying to validate the claims of multiple office cleaning companies is both time consuming and not always precise.
Yes you go through the paces talking to five, ten, twenty or more prospective commercial cleaning companies—you could have them all do site visits, submit office cleaning bids, try to get your head around their systems and if they will be able to do the work as promised, at or under your budget.
That’s really what it takes find the masters and avoid the disasters, but that kind of commitment could easily become a full time job within your existing duties.
There has to be a better, more efficient way to find the right office cleaning services.
There Is A Simple Path to Finding the Best Office Cleaning Services
Thankfully, great office cleaning services don’t have to be the elusive unicorn we sometimes think it is.
Not only is it possible to find the right office cleaning company (without giving up your firstborn or casting a magic spell), it’s actually pretty easy and straightforward if you know about the valuable short cut.
The shortcut and time saving technique to secure the most responsive and effective office cleaning services is the ISSA’s CIMS-GB.
If you haven’t heard of this before, let’s look at what CIMS is and how it can work for you.
- The ISSA is the International Sanitary Supply Association, an international industry association for building services contractors.
- CIMS, or the Certified Industry Management Standard, is the ISSA’s demanding industry certification offered to office cleaning companies and commercial cleaning companies that want to distinguish themselves by adopting industry best practices throughout all levels of their business.
- GB is the Green Building element of this certification and offers janitorial companies a certification that helps them help their customers earn points under the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance (LEED EB: O&M) Green Building Rating System.
So the CIMS-GB gives office cleaning companies a framework with which to design and adjust their operations to deliver the most efficient, consistent and effective services and then the ISSA uses benchmarks and systematic evaluation to see if a company hits the mark, earning CIMS certification.
CIMS Clears A Path to Exceptional, Professional Office Cleaning Services
Some industry certifications amount to little more than paid awards or participation trophies that don’t really give you as a Facility Manager any real, solid, good information.
CIMS certification is no participation trophy, rather it is a rigorous, challenging, comprehensive, independent assessment.
CIMS isn’t a self performed ‘test,’ it is a challenging, multifaceted assessment carried out by an ISSA-accredited third party assessor.
This makes CIMS a credible shortcut for creating your short list of prospective janitorial companies.
To attain and retain certification, a company must meet ALL mandatory elements and at least 60% of suggested benchmarks.
CIMS-certified companies are simply **far more likely** to deliver consistent, high-quality office cleaning.
ISSA CIMS–GB Is an Excellent Predictor of High Level Office Cleaning Services
ISSA’s CIMS and CIMS-GB is a demanding process, but what does CIMS mean for you and your facility?
It focuses on 5 critical pillars:
- Quality Systems: effective operations & continuous improvement
- Service Delivery: consistency & performance systems
- Human Resources: proper hiring, screening, training
- Health, Safety, & Environmental Stewardship: compliance & safety
- Management Commitment: mission, vision & values
These five yardsticks predict whether a cleaning company will deliver the level of service you deserve.
The ISSA has already done the hard part of pre-screening for you — and it’s free.
Let CIMS Make Your Search For the Right Office Cleaning Company Clear & Straightforward
Finding the right office cleaning company can be a big task, but CIMS makes it easier.
Here at Stathakis, we have spent over thirty years developing a standard of service delivery.
We are proudly CIMS certified and committed to continual improvement.
If you are in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Royal Oak, Farmington Hills, Farmington, Dearborn, Livonia, Troy, Auburn Hills, Novi, Plymouth, Downriver or surrounding areas — we can help.
To find a CIMS-GB certified company in your area, visit ISSA here.
