All About Day Porter Services

What Are Day Porter Services?

Porter services are a modern cleaning model where day porters clean your facility during operational hours. Day porters work alongside your employees in an unobtrusive way to keep your facility clean. Porter services are highly customizable—you decide how intensive you want their cleaning to be. Day porter duties can include:

Restroom Maintenance
Kitchen Upkeep
Lobby Cleaning
Supply Stocking
Sanitation and Disinfecting Services
Set Up and Removal of Equipment
Cleaning Spills
Emptying Trash
Outdoor Debris Removal
Minor Repair and Facility Maintenance

What differentiates day porters from typical cleaners is that porter services are continuous—your facility will stay in excellent shape throughout the day! Porter availability lets them tackle issues as they arise, as porters are there and ready to act if something needs attention. Day porters can also handle tasks outside of cleaning, including minor maintenance. Whether you need an urgent spill cleaned or snacks stocked, a day porter team will be prepared to handle it.

Day porters can also be partnered with a traditional night crew to guarantee that your business shines!

Why Choose A Day Porter Service?

Now that we better understand what differentiates day porters from traditional cleaners, let’s talk about why you should choose a day porter. Day porters can:

Keep Your Facility Presentable

Day porters ensure that your business looks excellent throughout the day. This is perfect for high-traffic, customer-facing businesses. Your business’s appearance greatly affects how likely a customer is to engage with your company. Take the perspective of a customer—would you buy from a messy business that stinks?

Presentation is also critical in B2B businesses. If a potential client sees a hovel when they come to your office, you can be sure that they’ll think twice about partnering with you.

Improve Employee Productivity

As mentioned in our LAST BLOG, a clean space dramatically increases worker productivity—messy workplaces lose $2.5 million annually in productivity. A team of night janitors may not be able to do enough to keep your team focused throughout the day. Simple issues like clutter could be costing your employee’s productivity.

Reduce Operational Costs

Studies say that day porters show potential savings of up to 25% when compared to conventional after-hours services. Day porters also save on labor when used in conjunction with a night crew—porters keep your office in good shape, which lets the night crew fly through their cleaning. A night crew that gets the lights shut off quickly leads to two things:

Low Labor Costs
Low Energy Costs

Maintain Employee Health

Porter services keep your employees healthy by leveraging their experience and advanced sanitation technology. Day porters are especially valuable in businesses that deal with high traffic from customers. Porters regularly disinfect objects like grocery carts, self-checkout touch screens, handles, and other high touch point surfaces. Day porters can keep your employees and customers safe.

Provide Flexibility

Day porters are flexible to your needs. A day porter can do anything—whether it’s as simple as waste removal or as intensive as disinfectant services. Having a day porter on your team means you’ll be prepared for any cleaning need.

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Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Day Porter

How do you choose the right day porter? Here are key questions to ask before you partner with a day porter service provider:

How Long Have They Been in Business?

Many cleaning contractors phase in and out of the industry—these companies may change their name, but they retain the same low-quality managers that provide poor cleaning services. While your cleaning partner doesn’t need to be ancient, look for a company with experience in the industry and a record of satisfied customers.

What Services Do They Offer?

What kind of porter services do they offer? If a company doesn’t offer the services you need, they aren’t worth partnering with. Some companies will suggest that they can handle your cleaning needs even if the tasks aren’t in their wheelhouse.

You want expert cleaners that have a wealth of experience, not sloppy cleaners that will take any work they can get.

What Industries Do They Typically Serve?

If your company is an office space but a porter works exclusively with retail stores, consider another provider. You should partner with a porter service that offers stellar services across industries.

How Flexible Are They to Your Needs?

How flexible are the porters you’re considering partnering with? You want a day porter that will provide the services you need when you need them. There are two steps necessary to finding out if a day porter will work with you:

Internal review — What services do you need from a day porter? Where do you think they’d be primarily located? When do you think you’ll need them?
Communication — Communicate with who you’re considering as your provider. Now that you know what you need, find out if they can provide that for you.

How Much Do They Cost?

We understand that business decisions often come down to the bottom line. Make sure that the company you’re partnering with has a clear pricing model.

Keep in mind that price is extremely reflective of quality in the cleaning industry—if a company is offering services at strangely low rates, their services are probably low quality.

Choose Absolute Janitorial For Excellent Day Porter Services:

Partner with Absolute Janitorial for top-notch day porter services. Our seasoned day porter team will keep your company spotless and workers focused. Partner with us and we’ll work together on a detailed plan—we make sure that our customers always know what they’re getting. Feel the Absolute difference and contact us today!