As a small business owner, it would appear, on first glance,

that cleaning your office or house yourself is a sure fire way

to save money. After all, the alternative is to pay to hire a

professional cleaning service.

But as it turns out, in some cases, you actually lose more money by doing the cleaning yourself than you would hiring someone. Because the time you spend cleaning could be spent working, which generates income, or resting, which is required from time to time to increase productivity.

Whichever it is, the money you save from doing the cleaning yourself can sometimes be outweighed by the money lost when you aren’t working. There is also an emotional cost that needs to be factored in if you are doing all the cleaning yourself. On top of work and any other commitments the small business owner may have, you are likely to have less and less free time and sleep.

This leads to exhaustion and increased stress, which can have a negative impact on your health, which will, in the long run, decrease productivity.

So hiring a cleaning service can, in many cases, actually make you money rather than cause you to lose it. There is the short term gain that working not cleaning will provide you with, and in the long term, more free time and less stress, which increased productivity and thus profit. Not to mention the decreased stress levels, which is good for your mental health.