Actually, this isn't entirely true. Bacteria evolve and mutate faster than anything else around, and can and do develop some level of resistence to chemical antimicrobials.
The increased use of these substances in the household (and office now, I guess) has already started to have an impact on hospitals, which need them in cleaning/handwashing to prevent potentially fatal strep infects and such in post-ops.
There are other interesting side effects of household antimicrobials, too. For example, they kill off the "natural microflora" (harmless bacteria that live in the crevices of your skin) which would normally compete with and prevent nastier microbes from growing there.
Finally, soap and water are tremendously effective against cold and flu viruses, which realistically are the only things you're going to pick up around the office. Anybody who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something!
IT talent is expensive; find room in your budget to give your developers good tools when they request them. It could wind up saving hundreds of man hours over the course of just a few months.
(And remember, an employee who is denied $700 for a good IDE WILL wind up wasting a few solid days customizing emacs to be a viable editor; now you've wasted thousands of dollars and you don't even have a license to show for it!)
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Actually, this isn't entirely true. Bacteria evolve and mutate faster than anything else around, and can and do develop some level of resistence to chemical antimicrobials. The increased use of these substances in the household (and office now, I guess) has already started to have an impact on hospitals, which need them in cleaning/handwashing to prevent potentially fatal strep infects and such in post-ops. There are other interesting side effects of household antimicrobials, too. For example, they kill off the "natural microflora" (harmless bacteria that live in the crevices of your skin) which would normally compete with and prevent nastier microbes from growing there. Finally, soap and water are tremendously effective against cold and flu viruses, which realistically are the only things you're going to pick up around the office. Anybody who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something!
IT talent is expensive; find room in your budget to give your developers good tools when they request them. It could wind up saving hundreds of man hours over the course of just a few months. (And remember, an employee who is denied $700 for a good IDE WILL wind up wasting a few solid days customizing emacs to be a viable editor; now you've wasted thousands of dollars and you don't even have a license to show for it!)