Coworking Office Space Hygiene Guide: Protocols for Shared Offices

Coworking spaces create hygiene challenges that traditional offices never face because the fundamental model — dozens of unrelated individuals sharing desks, meeting rooms, kitchens, and bathrooms daily — maximises the surface contact points through which bacteria and viruses transmit between people. We have cleaned coworking spaces across Surry Hills, Ultimo, Chippendale, and Redfern since the model first gained popularity in Sydney, and the cleaning protocols we have developed bear almost no resemblance to standard office cleaning services. Every shared desk, hot-desk keyboard, phone booth, and breakout area is a potential transmission vector, and our job as commercial cleaning services providers is to neutralise that risk without disrupting the collaborative atmosphere that makes coworking spaces attractive to their members. For a detailed look at individual workstation hygiene, see our desk cleaning guide.