How Big Businesses Get a ‘Deep Clean’ in Coronavirus Pandemic

Tim Anderson, the managing director of TJM investments who works in a pod on the trading floor, said he had been trying to shake hands less and hug less. He was using hand sanitizer more. He said he had no intention of staying home from work.

“It would be a very bad optic for the building to close,” he said, adding that he was excited about the sanitation effort. “I mean look, I think it’d be a great idea to do it once a month even if there wasn’t a virus.”

The disinfection crew wore matching hazardous material suits, reflective yellow vests, doubled-up blue gloves, goggles and purple respirators. They filled spray bottles and fanned out across the floor. They would be working until the morning. They would clean every surface that people had touched.

The place was pretty messy, truth be told.

There is a long tradition of writing notes and arithmetic on scraps of paper and dropping them, ripped up, on the floor. And so last Friday, there were the scraps, along with piles of candy wrappers, water bottles, pizza oil-covered paper plates, tin foil, and many balled up napkins, which doubled as stress balls for the traders during the day.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/business/coronavirus-cleaning-offices.html