As a business owner it's a challenging task to understand when your company should hire its own cleaning staff or rely on the cleaning services offered by an office or business janitorial service. Cleaning services are professional and deal with a variety of cleaning related situations, and are often better prepared to handle your janitorial or cleaning tasks.

Janitorial services usually operate on contracts, and depending your business's needs, usually common areas (bathrooms, lunchrooms), carpets, windows, as well waste removal, will negotiate costs for maintaining a professional, sanitary appearance for your company, and handle the supply of materials, from toilet paper to trash bags.

Working with a cleaning service offers many advantages over hiring your own staff. The cleaning service has their own training process, and you are already receiving trained professionals who understand what needs to be done. They already have their own cleaning supplies and materials, (vacuums, cleansers, mops, carts, etc.), saving you the need to invest in costly equipment.

Contracting with a janitorial service may cost more than the wages you might pay to an employee to do the same job, but with benefits, payroll time and costs, and other considerations, the cleaning service may offer a better price, when you remove the time your accounting and human resource departments need to spend on cleaning staff priorities.