While fears surrounding COVID are clearly abating, concerns regarding the potential for new mandates caused by increased case counts have resulted in top prioritization for health-based facility cleaning services.

Health Measures Top Workforce Priorities
Cleaning for health still tops office workforce priorities.

Recent data suggests that while several areas of in-house managed cleaning services have improved since the start of the pandemic, several critical areas are either lagging behind or potentially misdirected and would benefit from outsourced expertise.

The Current State of In-House Managed Cleaning Services
A recent survey conducted by CMM assessed several critical benchmarks for in-house cleaning and facility maintenance services, including:

Post-pandemic occupation levels.

Earth Day 2022 falls on April 22 and marks a significant turning point where businesses must fully commit to investing in sustainability initiatives by cutting the carbon from their cleaning processes or risk potentially devastating impacts to their organizations via supply chain disruptions, loss of consumer support, and the departure of skilled labor to organizations that align with their values.