Daily office cleaning is the work that brings an office back to working order every shift: emptying the bins, cleaning floors according to the floor type, wiping desks, disinfecting door handles, buttons and handrails, and cleaning washrooms and the kitchen with soap and paper restocked. In busy offices the kitchen and washrooms are cleaned several times a day, not once. Ceilings, light fittings, the tops of cabinets, appliances inside, carpets and external windows are not part of the daily scope — they are covered by scheduled work and deep cleaning. The list of tasks and their frequency are agreed individually with each client and written into the contract zone by zone.
Eight office zones
1
Entrance and reception
The first thing a visitor sees. Floors and entrance mats, the glass of the front door, the reception desk, handles and buttons — every shift, and in busy offices during the day as well.
2
Workstations
Wiping desks, emptying bins and cleaning the floor under the desks. Documents and staff belongings are not moved: what gets cleaned on desks and what doesn’t is agreed in advance.
3
Meeting rooms
Tables, chairs, whiteboards, floors and bins. In offices where meeting rooms are booked all day, they are reset between meetings on request.
4
Washrooms
Sanitary fittings cleaned with disinfectant, mirrors, floors, soap, paper and liners restocked. A washroom that is clean in the morning and out of paper by lunchtime has failed, so in busy offices washrooms are checked several times a day.
5
Kitchen and break area
Worktops, the sink, the outside of appliances, waste and consumables — twice a day. The inside of the fridge, microwave and coffee machine is cleaned during a deep clean.
6
Corridors and lift lobbies
Floors, lift call buttons, handrails, glass and bins by the lifts. If the lobbies and lifts are common areas of the building, they are often cleaned by the property management company — worth confirming in advance.
7
Glass and partitions
Every shift: fingerprints on doors and partitions at hand height. Full partitions and internal glazing: on an agreed schedule.
8
Waste
Emptying all bins, replacing liners, and separating recycling if the building does it.
What happens every shift
Emptying all bins and replacing liners.
Dry and wet cleaning of hard floors, vacuuming carpets and entrance mats.
Wiping desks at workstations and in meeting rooms.
Door handles, buttons, switches, handrails and terminals — with disinfectant.
Washrooms: sanitary fittings with disinfectant, mirrors, floors, soap and paper.
Kitchen: worktops, sink, outside of appliances, waste and consumables — twice a day.
Fingerprints on glass doors and partitions.
What runs on an agreed schedule
Walls and doors up to 1.7 m: marks and fingerprints.
Sockets, cable trunking, radiators and skirting boards.
Cabinets and office equipment on the outside.
Upholstered furniture — vacuuming.
Full glass partitions and internal glazing.
Ceilings, cobwebs, light fittings and diffusers.
Tops of cabinets and surfaces above 1.8 m.
Ventilation grilles on the outside.
Limescale on taps and tile grout in washrooms.
We agree the frequency of this work individually with each client: an open-plan office with visitors needs it more often, a small office with closed rooms less often. Whatever neither daily nor scheduled cleaning reaches is covered by a deep clean — usually once a quarter. The schedule is drawn up at the site survey and written into the contract.
What daily cleaning does not include
Daily cleaning keeps an office in order, but it doesn’t remove built-up dirt. These are priced separately and run on their own schedule:
Deep cleaning: appliances inside, cabinets inside, behind and under furniture, light fittings with diffusers removed.
Carpet and upholstery cleaning with an extraction machine.
Rotary scrubbing of hard floors and a protective coat.
External window and facade cleaning, work at height.
Duct cleaning and ventilation treatment.
If a quotation suggests these are somehow “included” in daily cleaning, ask for each one as a separate line with a frequency. Work that has no frequency in the contract usually never gets done.
When to clean
The shift time is set around the office’s hours. There are three options.
Before the working day. The main clean happens early in the morning, and everything is ready when staff arrive. This suits most offices.
In the evening, after staff leave. Useful when every room needs to be accessible and daytime cleaning would get in the way.
Day support. For offices with visitors: a team member on site looks after the entrance, washrooms and kitchen, while the main clean happens in the morning or evening.
Offices by Dubai district: what to plan for
We work in every district of Dubai. The district and the building affect access, working hours and where responsibility is split with the property management company.
Business Bay and Downtown Dubai — office towers run by property management companies. Working hours, the service lift and waste removal are agreed with building management, and night access is arranged in advance.
DIFC — a financial district with tighter security. Passes for the contractor’s staff are arranged in advance, and since desks carry a lot of documents, the rules for cleaning workstations are written down separately.
JLT and Dubai Marina — mixed-use towers where offices sit next to clinics, shops and cafés. The building’s common areas are usually cleaned by the property management company and the office by its own contractor, and the boundary between them should be written into the contract.
Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City and Al Barsha — open-plan offices with kitchens and meeting rooms. Most of the work falls on kitchens, washrooms and meeting rooms rather than on workstations.
Dubai Silicon Oasis — a free zone with its own entry rules. Passes for the crew and access arrangements are agreed before the first shift.
Deira and Bur Dubai — older office buildings with carpets and small rooms. Vacuuming carpets every shift and periodic extraction cleaning matter most here.
How to check that a shift has done everything
The word “clean” can’t be checked in a contract. What can be checked is a list: each zone has tasks with a frequency, and each shift has a checklist signed off by the person in charge on site. Ask the contractor for three things:
A zone-by-zone task list with frequencies, attached to the contract.
A sample of a completed shift checklist.
The procedure for reporting an issue and getting confirmation that it has been fixed.
What a contractor needs to quote
To get a real quote rather than a guess, prepare:
Floor area by zone: workstations, meeting rooms, washrooms, kitchens, corridors.
The office’s working hours and a convenient cleaning time.
The number of staff and visitors per day.
The number of washrooms and kitchens.
Floor types: tiles, laminate, carpet, stone.
Who buys consumables — you or the contractor.
The district, the building and how access is arranged.
About us
B2B Clean Space is an international cleaning company founded in 2006. We clean offices and business centres in every district of Dubai — Business Bay, Downtown Dubai, DIFC, JLT, Dubai Marina, Al Barsha, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Deira and Bur Dubai — as well as warehouses, clinics, shops and other commercial sites. We agree the task list and its frequency individually with each client and write them into the contract zone by zone. We bring our own equipment and chemicals. The site survey is free. Work and requests are handled 24/7, including weekends and public holidays.
