HOUSEKEEPING LOSES HALF ITS STAFF EVERY YEAR AND EVERY HOTEL JUST ACCEPTS IT
On the wage this makes no sense. Cleaning is cheap labor, and a person does a room faster than three machines splitting the job between them.
But wage isn't what hotels actually pay for.
Every one of those people who leaves costs to recruit, costs to train, and is slower for their first month. And the whole department only exists between eleven and three, because rooms have to be done between checkout and check in. You can't staff that window part time, so you carry people for a full shift to use four hours of it.
That's the gap. Not the hourly rate, the shape of the day.
Where I think it breaks down is the mess. A machine folds a towel and makes a bed because those are the same every time. A room where somebody spilled wine, moved the furniture, and left something under the bed is a different problem, and that's most rooms.
So my read is these take the predictable half first. Beds, floors, linen. The person stays, they just stop doing the boring part.
Anyway, what do you reckon, real footage or generated?
I think it's generated. Every surface is already clean before the machines touch it.
The article below is on the wider shift, where machines stopped being demos and started doing actual work.