Why You Should Hire a Janitorial Service for Your School

Most schools hire an in-house custodian who works solely for the school district. While there may be various compelling reasons for this, for the most part, the given reason is tradition: they’ve always done it that way. Why fix something that isn’t broken, right? Well, it may not be broken, but what if there are more advantages and benefits to trying something different, such as a professional school cleaning company? You may not realize you needed it — until you see the difference. We’ll discuss those differences (and benefits) here.

 3 Reasons You Should Hire a Janitorial Service for Your School

Save Money

You might think that hiring an individual custodian would be cheaper than a commercial company, but think again: break down the costs associated with each. A private custodian is another employee of the school district, and with that hire comes all the usual employment expenses: health insurance, retirement savings, employer taxes, unemployment insurance, and worker’s compensation.

These benefits and liabilities can add up to tens of thousands of dollars per year that your district has to fund. When you hire a commercial school cleaning service, the company takes care of all those costs themselves, leaving you to simply pay for the service rendered.

Along with that, hiring a cleaning company makes things simpler for your accounting and payroll department too. Obviously, they have a big job to do, authorizing time sheets and processing payroll. When they get overwhelmed with so much paperwork and number crunching, even the sharpest person can make a mistake.

Ease the HR department’s workload with fewer employees to process in their system. The cleaning company takes care of its own, so that your HR can focus more on its main task: interviewing and hiring long-term employees and developing a standard of quality throughout your school district. While payroll is a big part of HR, most HR reps say their main job is to interview and hire people. Outsourcing your custodial tasks to a cleaning company empowers your HR department to do their main job to the best of their ability.

Don’t Overcomplicate

The more employees you have, the more managers and other types of leadership you probably need in order to ensure quality control. So in addition to paying the costs associated with regular custodial employees, a bigger workforce means you need to hire more managers to oversee that workforce. Now you are paying even more employment-related costs for the extra managers. See how your costs are compounding?

However, if you hire an outside cleaning company, you keep your actual staff within manageable numbers so that you don’t have to hire those extra managers (and incur extra costs). Your cleaning service has its own quality assurance and management, so you don’t have to worry about facilitating that part of your district’s staff.

Depending on the subject, it’s often true that as quantity increases, quality decreases. So if you are managing a diverse staff across many departments, including custodial, then your attention to detail is spread thin. One less department to worry about, one that can be outsourced like custodial, keeps your focus on quality of your staff and services, rather than simply juggling large numbers.

Choose Quality

That brings us to the final reason you should consider hiring a school cleaning company. It is preferable to choose quality over quantity. School cleaning is what a commercial janitorial service is focused on, and we’ve spent years developing our techniques. We truly are the professionals in the business.

Instead of adding employees to your payroll, choose an organization whose only job is to maintain a payroll of qualified service professionals for you. Quality saves you money in the long run. Of course you are considering whether your school can afford the upfront cost of a cleaning service, but when you dig into the numbers that come with hiring more residential employees for the janitorial department, you see that the costs are greater over time. Sometimes it’s better to absorb an immediate expense in order to save further down the road.

Tradition is important, but sometimes it’s there because it “always” has been, not because it has any current relevance. This may be the case with your school district’s janitorial system, so why not explore a modern, updated approach to keeping your facilities clean and healthy for your students and staff?

Covid-19

The age of the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that things can be done differently while still attaining the same results (think Zoom meetings and working remotely — many jobs we once considered impractical to perform anywhere but at “the office” are now done at home via computer and internet).

The pandemic has also prioritized the need for extreme attention to sanitation and disinfecting, and who better to ensure your school is up to CDC standards (and thus, able to remain open for students) than a professional cleaning company? The world has changed, and we must adapt with it; count on your professional janitorial service to help your organization evolve safely into the new era.