How Hotels can Celebrate Housekeeping Week, Sept. 8th-14th 2024
Celebrate Housekeeping Week!
Housekeeping staff is often overlooked. Their tireless efforts to maintain clean and comfortable guest rooms, public spaces, and back-of-house areas require attention to detail and commitment. Without housekeepers, diseases and other health and safety issues would increase.
Housekeeping Week is an annual event held every second whole week in September. It recognizes the vital role of housekeeping professionals in the hospitality industry. This year, the dates are September 8th through September 14th.
This week-long celebration gives hotels the opportunity to appreciate their housekeeping staff’s tireless efforts in delivering exceptional guest experiences.
Housekeeping staff is often overlooked. Their tireless efforts to maintain clean and comfortable guest rooms, public spaces, and back-of-house areas require attention to detail and commitment. Without housekeepers, diseases and other health and safety issues would increase.
Your housekeeper’s importance to the success of your business can’t be overstated.
Ways to Say Thank You!
Recognition goes a long way to create a more positive, inclusive, and rewarding work environment. Consider ways to make your housekeeping staff feel as special as they make your guests feel.
- Host a special luncheon where your housekeepers get waited on for a change
- Give gift cards for a spa day or a night out
- Recognize and award outstanding individuals for exceptional work
- Offer education or training opportunities for career advancement
- Decorate your hotel with Housekeeping Week banners and posters
- Provide a paid mental health day off
- Post positive stories about your housekeeping staff on social media
Team Building Activities
You’ve probably heard of the Housekeeping Olympics* held every year in Las Vegas. Housekeeping can feel like a solitary job, why not make it fun with some friendly team-building competition among your own housekeepers.
- Bed-making competition
- Towel folding art (origami)
- Vacuum races
- Mop relay
- Buffer pad ring toss
Housekeeping Week is a great time to recognize and reward the valuable contributions of the unsung heroes of your housekeeping professionals.
By celebrating their hard work and dedication, you can show appreciation for their efforts and help create a more positive and rewarding work environment.
References
National Today Housekeeping Week
Washington Post, Welcome to the Housekeeping Olympics, Start your Vacuums.
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