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How many room attendants do you need tomorrow?
Enter the week's departures and stayovers: see day by day how many people you need, when rooms are ready for check-in and the days you are short-staffed or overstaffed.
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How to read it
The number of attendants is the obvious result. The most useful one is the time checkout rooms are ready: if it comes after check-in, guests wait in the lobby even with the right team, and the fix is changing the order of work or the start time, not hiring.
Short-staffed days are almost always changeover days, Saturday and Sunday on the Riviera. Overstaffed days are paid hours that can be moved.
The calculation assumes everyone works from the start of the shift. In a PMS that knows which rooms are checking out and in what order to do them, the day's plan builds itself: that is what OS does.
How many minutes does a room take?
It depends on the room and on who does it. As a rough guide, a checkout double takes 25 to 45 minutes and a stayover 10 to 20. The best way is to time ten rooms of each kind for a week and use the average.
Why is there time that is not cleaning?
Because nobody cleans for six hours straight: there is the trolley to prepare, linen to fetch, walking between floors and the break. 15% is a cautious estimate; with far-apart floors or no service lift it can be more.
Why are checkout rooms done first?
Because they are the rooms arriving guests need. Stayovers can be done later, even once the guest has gone out for the day.
How do I count part-time attendants?
Count the people on shift that day and enter the most common shift length as shift hours. If some work half a shift, count two halves as one person.
Do you see the numbers I enter?
No. Your browser does the maths and nothing is sent. The link you can copy holds the numbers after the # sign, a part of the address browsers never send to the server.
The housekeeping plan, ready every morning
OS knows which rooms check out, which stay and what guests ask for, and prepares the floor sheet on its own.
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