Desks are really bacteria cafeterias. They?re breakfast buffets, lunch tables, and snack bars as we spend more and more hours at the office. |
Keyboards are a lunch counter for germs. We turn them over in a lot of studies and we are amazed at what comes out of a keyboard. |
Most of the common infections -- colds, flu, diarrhea -- you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces. |
Most people don't realize that they actually should wash their hands after they make dinner and also after they do the laundry. |
Nobody cleans their desk because it's a personal space. |
Teachers were not surprising because kids are so darn germy. Some of the others kind of surprised us, like the DJ. |
There is about a 10th of a gram of feces in the average pair of underwear. You don't want to be doing your handkerchiefs with your underwear. |
Toilets get a bad rap. So does the door on the way out. |
We don't want to make people overly paranoid here. You can reduce your risk of getting colds and flu by a few simple actions. You are always gambling with germs. You just want to keep the odds in your favor. |
We spend more and more time at our desks, but we haven't learned to bring the hygiene habits we have at home to the office. |
We were pleased to find a decrease in bacteria levels. Perhaps people are becoming more aware of germs in their office and doing something about it. |
We were surprised that bankers and accountants came up so high. I really expected lawyers, maybe television producers and radio announcers (to rank high). In my experiences, they're pretty bad. |