Office & call centre
A pod of twelve calls in sick on the same morning. Then another pod.
It starts as a resourcing problem. Twelve people off in one pod on Monday, service levels wobbling, agency cover priced accordingly. By Wednesday two more pods are down and the plan you built on Monday is gone. Hot-desking and shared headsets are wonderfully efficient — including at moving a virus around a floor.
In short
Fog the floor overnight with your own trained facilities staff. Desks, headsets, keyboards and the kitchen are treated as a volume rather than wiped, and the spread usually stops at the pod it started in.
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Wiping is doing something, but not much
Cleaning contracts cover desks and touchpoints. That is genuinely useful, and it is also why the outbreak spreads anyway: the shared kitchen handles, the headset foams, the breakout sofas and the keyboards between shifts are not all reachable, all night, every night.
Whole-volume fogging treats the floor as a space. It is a fundamentally different job to wiping, and it takes minutes per area rather than hours.
Fitting it around a 24-hour operation
Most contact centres run the cycle between shifts or overnight, with facilities staff trained as operators. Areas are treated in sequence and each carries a door card with the safe entry time, so the next shift walks into a treated floor.
There is no corrosive residue, so headsets, keyboards, monitors and desk phones are unaffected.
- Whole floors, meeting rooms, kitchens, breakout areas and washrooms
- Preventative cycles through the winter season, not just after an outbreak
- Roughly £10–£12 + VAT per treated area on a lease from £450 per month + VAT
- Dated certificates to show staff and clients that prevention is routine
The staffing argument
For an operation where absence directly moves the service level, avoided sick days are the return on this, not cleaning budget savings. One prevented multi-pod outbreak generally pays for a substantial part of the year.
Frequently asked
- Does the office need to close?
- No. Only the area being treated must be unoccupied for the cycle and its calculated re-entry period, which is why most sites run it overnight or between shifts.
- Is it safe for IT equipment?
- Yes. The hydrogen peroxide based disinfectant leaves no residue and breaks down to water and oxygen.
- Can a facilities manager operate it?
- Yes, once trained. On-site operator training is included and only trained, competent staff may operate the machine.
Sources: material published by Sanondaf UK at sanondaf.co.uk (news, research and case studies) and the technical and commercial documentation held by the Shropshire & West Midlands office. Figures are indicative and confirmed at survey. Efficacy is stated as up to 99.9999% reduction.