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Every office needs more than just people working hard each day in order for it to be a great place to work. Here are three services that every office needs.
Repairs
Occasionally, this will break down and stop working. This is to be expected. However, this also means that you are going to need repairs. This might be having a repair service for when your printer gets jammed and stops working, or it might be having IT support in case the computers stop working. You will always need to have a repairs service or two available to your office because there are times when things will just go wrong. If you fail to be prepared for this kind of eventuality, then you are going to need to be ready for productivity to grind to a halt or for your office to be unable to use important equipment. You might not have all of or any of this in-house. Instead, you should know which outside services you need to contact if and when things go wrong.
Cleaning
You need to clean your office. Your staff should clean their own mugs and pots, but you will need to have the desks and floors cleaned regularly. If you don’t, then your staff may start to get ill, and this is bad for your office. All it takes it for office cleaning services to visit your office in an evening once everyone has gone home and give the place a quick clean each day. Much like repairs, they don’t need to be employees and can instead be an outside company that you hire for a specific purpose. However, it is important to remember that it needs cleaning and that it is unhealthy and against all sorts of healthy and safety regulations and policies to not have it cleaned. Your staff will complain if they have to work in a dirty office and it is a relatively inexpensive service that is just part of having an office.
Stationery
Your office might be mostly running on computers and being digital. However, there are likely times when people need to print things off, make notes or use other kinds of stationery. At times like this, you need to keep your office well stocked. It can be somebodies job to monitor the stationery levels and order new when they need to. However, you need to make sure that it is happening. The last thing you want is for an important meeting to roll around and be unable to print off the necessary documentation because you have no ink or paper. Neither do you want to run out of things like paper clips, staplers or pens when you need to make notes or organize paperwork? Ensuring that you know how much stationery you have and when you need to order more from somewhere like Lyreco is important. These companies will often provide a next day delivery service to your company so that you never go too long without important items.
