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My family is in the hotel business. I can tell that we would have absolutely no interest in doing this. We make sure out employees look after our property and provide great customer service. We do not have down time for them. We run a tight ship.
The liability and other headaches that come with what you propose is incredible.
The only thing we would consider doing is using one of our banquet facility rooms as a senior day-care center from 9am to 2pm Mon-Friday because a company would be paying us for the space and food. Everything else is on them.
I agree the liability may be high unless you set up something like this - set up a separate entity to run the out-sourced services from in which you 1099 the "employees" and require them to hold their own insurance. Only down side here is your not able to direct the laborers as you would normally due to them not actually being employees. This is how a lot of vacation rental companies handle the constant demands set on them. Definitely not impossible. Cheers
I would say that the answer is NO!. I have friends who actually do the opposite of what you are talking about and they are very successful. Consider instead...start a cleaning service and hire them out to hotels, charge by the room cleaned. That is what my friends are doing and they are making lots of $$.
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Overall, it's a sound idea to use spare resources (ie. staff) for commercial benefits - but the majority of hotel owners will definitely not be interested. Housekeeping is a considerable expense for hoteliers and most focus on maintaining or driving down the 'cost per room' for cleaning. For the potential profit involved (once split between workers and hotels) this would be a nightmare. Liability, staffing, booking, insurance, workers health and safety, just to begin with, would make this extremely hard. Not to mention, hotels have dynamic inventory shifts and resource needs change hourly, as the needed 'full check-out service' and 'daily clean' needs shift with occupancy.
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Yes, they would be interested but on the condition that you show them profits. Without seeing that hotels would not branch out domestic staffing services. Try to form a domestic staffing agency and hotels would be clients. There are hundreds of domestic staffing agencies around the world and for clients looking to hire staff or candidates looking to find work, it can be a daunting task knowing where to start. Agencies can make life easier, but it is important to know what to expect and how to best leverage their services. Whether you are looking to hire a domestic staff member or get hired as a domestic staff member, you will look to an agency for quality and speed. Professional agencies connect their clients with the best domestic staff, and they can usually do it quick. A good agency has the know-how and network to place lasting domestic staff. Domestic staffing agencies are specialists at what they do, and the best agencies will make the process pain-free and stress-free. Domestic staff have a close relationship with the families they work for and it is important the find a good match, which means an agency needs to understand both clients and candidates. Communication is paramount. You should feel comfortable communicating with your staffing agency and be able to reach them easily. Professional domestic staffing agencies have a large database of candidates on their books, so when you ask them to find your next member of staff they already have access to the exact type of candidates that you require and can help find you find the right candidate faster.
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