Why You Should Hire a Local Cleaning Company
When you’re looking to hire a cleaner for your work or for your home, you are really spoiled for choice in the modern age. Using your phone you can access a range of different providers who you can bring in to do the job, all of which have different pros and cons.
Typically, you can categorize these providers into three different groups:
- Large cleaning corporations who have scaled up to a big size and have a large staff complement which are charged out to jobs around the company as and when needed. These companies have large national presences and spend a lot of their time branding themselves to earn mind space.
- On-Demand platforms draw from the success of Uber and Airbnb to create an online marketplace for cleaners to be matched with potential customers and compete for work based on price and availability. Here, you’re dealing with individual contractors in most cases, rather than company employees, and the platform is just providing the technology to facilitate that connection.
- Local cleaning companies who operate in a relatively smaller radius and offer a more personalized, relationship-based cleaning service. These are more traditional businesses built with hard work and perseverance, hiring local employees and providing key services for the area in which they are located.
There are various reasons that the industry has broken into these lines in this way, but we really think that going with a local cleaning company is your best option for some of the following reasons:
- Customer Relationship: When you go with a large corporation or a freelancer that you’ve hired from a platform, the experience is very transactional and somewhat de-humanizing to an extent. The focus is on being as discrete as possible and it becomes somewhat commoditized. On the other hand, when you work with a local cleaning company like Green USA Cleaning, we are looking to build a long-term relationship with you that can transcend just this one transaction. Thus, we can build trust with you and become a key partner for you over the long-term. You just don’t get that with larger organizations.
- Employees, not subcontractors: Everyone who cleans with a local cleaning company is an employee, rather than a subcontractor. This means that you’re going to get someone who has been trained, who is doing this full-time for a living. This should give you the peace of mind to know that your belongings are being well taken care of and it’s not just a rushed job to get it out of the way. When it comes to large corporations or platforms, you’re not going to get that attention to detail because you’re dealing with someone who might be doing this as a part-time thing, and who has limited incentive to take their time and get it right.
- When you work with a local cleaning company that you get along with, you can rely on some consistency when it comes to the service offerings, the cleaning materials used, and the forms of communication. This reduces the moving parts and limits where things can go wrong. In other cases, you don’t get that consistency because you’re dealing with different people every time and they could bring a whole range of new equipment and cleaning materials – so you never know what’s going to work and what’s not going to work. Cleaning is not somewhere you want novelty, you want to know that it’s going to be clear, transparent, and as per the spec, every single time.
- Can Respond to Problems Quicker: The nature of a local cleaning company being in close proximity to you means they can respond to problems much quicker than large corporations or platforms can. Thus, on those rare occasions when things go wrong, you can rest assured that you’ll get help immediately. You’re not just a number to a local cleaning company, you’re a valued customer who deserves exceptional service.
- Promoting local businesses: This is more of an altruistic reason, but by supporting a local cleaning company instead of a giant corporation, you are promoting local businesses and helping to drive economic activity in your local area. This is not only a kind and thoughtful thing to do, but it also benefits you because it keeps the economic wheel moving in your local vicinity.
- Workers are paid fairly: When you use a local cleaning company, the cleaners themselves are fairly remunerated for their work. They are not squeezed for margins in the way that happens in large corporations and on platforms. In those instances, the companies drive competition so hard that the cleaners actually end up earning way less than they deserve, with the company itself pocketing the majority of the revenue. If you care about the holistic stakeholders in the cleaning transaction, then a local cleaning company is the way to go.
Now, of course, we’re a little biased – but we hope that these reasons above show you why going with a local cleaning company is always going to be a better option than using a large national organization, or the latest and greatest platform app that connects freelance cleaners with users. Whether you look at it dispassionately based on pure value, or you consider the wider societal impact of your choices, local cleaning companies come out on top. It’s an absolute no-brainer on so many counts.
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Here at Green USA Cleaning, we’ve spent years perfecting our services and building ourselves into a proud local cleaning company that goes above and beyond for out clients. We have a presence and are able to offer house cleaning services in a number of areas including San Jose, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and Redwood City. So if you have cleaning needs in those areas, be sure to give us a shout. You can book online in just a few clicks and try out our service for yourself.
We assure you that you won’t get this level of service, discretion, and value for money anywhere else. And we want to be your partners – one small component to take cleaning off your plate and let you focus on what really matters for you.
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