Dishing The Dirt On Office Germs

The office is a hotbed of germs, a microbial monstrosity!
According to a University of Arizona study, a typical worker’s desk has hundreds of times more bacteria per square inch than a toilet seat!
What is the germiest item in an office? It’s the humble telephone!
Telephones are constantly close to people’s mouths, and are rarely disinfected.
Tables and desks rank next on the dirty “hot list.”
Computer keyboards and mice, shared pens, elevator or vending machine buttons, and handrails, which are in constant contact with human hands, are also natural nesting places for germs and viruses that can live on a surface for up to three days.
So, what can you do to make your office a cleaner place?
Simply put, sanitize it.
Among office workers who were instructed to clean their desks daily with disinfecting wipes, bacterial levels were cut by 99 percent, drastically reducing their chance of illness.
Be aware of the places germs concentrate, and washhands frequently to further guard against illness.
And if you have to eat your lunch off anything in the office, try the photocopier.
With just 69 germs per square inch, it’s almost as clean as the toilet seat!