New Year, New Standards: Cleaning Resolutions for 2025

The start of a new year is always a good time to step back and ask: How can we do things better? Facility managers are no longer solely responsible for maintaining basic operations; they play a key role in helping organizations optimize space and time usage, ensure compliance with environmental regulations, and improve the well-being of workers “living” the building. Therefore, in facilities management, it’s about more than clean floors—it’s about creating spaces that are safe, efficient, and built to thrive in 2025 and beyond.

To help you set your sights on the year ahead, here are three resolutions you may want to consider:

1. Make Sustainable Cleaning a Reality

Given that buildings are still responsible for nearly 40% of global energy-related CO2 emissions, a major concern for facility managers in this new year is how to make their operations more sustainable and reduce their environmental footprint. But sustainability has to be, first of all, achievable. Thanks to technology, now this is possible, at least for what concerns cleaning. Think simple steps: save water by switching to technologies that reduce the impact of your cleaning operations with chemical-free solutions, choose battery-powered machines, and find ways to extend the life of your equipment. These tips aren’t just good for the planet—they’re good for your bottom line.

Resolution: Find one area to make a small but meaningful change towards sustainable cleaning in 2025.

2. Clean Smarter, Not Harder

In 2025, businesses will continue to focus on the relation between workplace experience and workforce efficiency, analyzing the impact of a clean and safe work environment on the employee satisfaction and how it maximizes companies’ real estate portfolios. The cleaning industry has been facing its share of challenges, from tight budgets to labour shortages, but embracing automation and smarter workflows can help lighten the load. Floor cleaning robots don’t just deliver high standards of cleanliness; they provide a safer work environment in which your team can feel comfortable and work better. For example, Tennant’s industrial robotic floor scrubber, the T16AMR, can both easily and safely navigate around workers performing their tasks and avoid unplanned obstacles in complex, real-world facilities.

Resolution: Explore how automation could improve efficiency in your cleaning operations and boost the productivity of your workforce.

3. Let Data Do the Heavy Lifting

Facilities managers are already stretched thin. Why not let data work harder for you? Taking advantage of data will enable you to increase the quality of your decisions, relying on concrete information that can spark incredible results. When talking about cleaning, choosing modern equipment paired with telemetry hardware and software can give you real-time insights to improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and keep your cleaning programmes running smoothly. Small tweaks based on actionable data can add up to big savings.

Resolution: Use data to identify one bottleneck or inefficiency to address this year.

What’s Your Focus for 2025?

A new year is a chance to make meaningful changes that will impact your teams, your facilities, and the people who use them. Whether it’s working smarter, prioritising sustainability, or making decisions backed by data, every small improvement can make a big difference.

So, what’s your resolution for 2025?

Let’s tackle this year’s challenges head-on and raise the standard for cleaning together, contact us now!

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