How Often Should a Commercial Office Really Be Cleaned?

commercial office cleaned to a set cleaning schedule

It's one of the first questions we get asked, and there's no single right answer – it depends on foot traffic, the type of site, and what "clean" actually needs to mean for your business. Here's how we scope it.

Start with foot traffic, not a template

A 20-person tenancy and a 200-person corporate floor don't need the same schedule, even if they're the same size. High-traffic areas – entries, kitchens, bathrooms – wear out faster than a quiet back office. We scope to the site, not to a template.

The three common patterns

✓Nightly – most offices with daily occupancy. Bins, kitchens, bathrooms and high-touch surfaces done every night.

✓Weekly (2-3x) – smaller tenancies, lower traffic, or hybrid-work offices where the floor is half-empty most days.

✓Daytime top-ups – added on top of a nightly or weekly schedule for retail-facing or client-facing spaces that need to look presentable during business hours, not just after.

washroom and hygiene servicing as part of a commercial cleaning schedule

What gets missed when frequency is wrong

Too infrequent, and dust, grime and washroom consumables become visible complaints before anyone acts. Too frequent, and you're paying for a service the site doesn't need. The fix isn't more or less cleaning – it's a written scope that matches the schedule to how the space is actually used, then gets checked against that scope rather than assumed.

How we scope it

We walk the building, ask how it's used, and write a schedule around that – not a generic package. If your needs change (more staff, a new floor, hybrid work patterns shifting), the scope changes with it.

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