Housekeepers want to clean your hotel room every day
Hotel rooms should be cleaned every day.
Hotel guests think skipping housekeeping helps workers, but it cuts their hours and makes their jobs even more painful because rooms are dirtier and harder to clean.
Housekeepers report daily cleaning is essential to manage their difficult job. According to housekeepers, daily is best for managing trash, tackling tough stains, and using less chemicals. For pests such as bedbugs, the industry itself states “the best prevention is daily inspection.”
Fewer rooms to clean also means fewer jobs for housekeepers. UNITE HERE estimates that ending daily housekeeping would eliminate up to 39% of all U.S. hotel housekeeping jobs and cost housekeepers – overwhelmingly women of color – $4.8 billion in annual lost wages.1
Automatic daily housekeeping was a standard amenity enjoyed by hotel guests until the pandemic created an opportunity for hotel owners and operators to halt the service—a service many have yet to restore.
Housekeepers are asking you to request housekeeping every day of your hotel stay and join their call on the hotel industry to return to automatic daily housekeeping. Support hotel housekeepers and add your name today!
