Workloading Creates Accountable CLEANING By: Leah Runge Accurate and scientific calculations prove imperative when dealing with larger locations. W Leah Runge is Marketing Manager for AFFLINK’s eLev8 ® system. AFFLINK is a leading sales and marketing organization for the facil-ity management, cleaning, healthcare, education, indus-trial, packaging and related industries. Runge can be contacted via her company’s website at AFFLINK.com. When it comes to smaller commercial facili-ties such as offices, building service contractors (BSCs) and facility managers (FMs) typically can estimate their cleaning needs, the amount of time it should take, how many workers will be needed and, with this information, an idea of how much the work will cost. However, when dealing with much larger loca-tions, especially multi-tenant office buildings, an estimate will not suffice. Since the needs and costs to clean and main-tain the facility are so much greater, it must be determined by using a much more reliable and credible system. This is where workloading enters the equation. Today, workloading is about the most scientific and accurate way to determine the cleaning needs of a facility. With this information, such things as how many workers will be needed to maintain the location, how long it should take to clean the facility, the supplies necessary, as well as costs not only can be accu-rately calculated, but this calculation can be used by a BSC to prepare a proposal and by an FM to deter-mine an operating budget. The Workloading Process To start a basic workloading process, there are three key areas that must be addressed. The first is to determine the cleaning tasks needed to maintain the facility, and these are broken down into the following three categories: for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: Workloading. For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select BUYERS’ GUIDE from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: Productivity. To address additional issues that can make the entire workloading process much more complicated, many have turned to software or web-based workloading programs for solutions. 18 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • September 2013 Image Courtesy of SergeyNivens/iStockphoto/Thinkstock
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