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Housekeeping is where the labour shortage actually bites

Rooms divisions are absorbing the shortfall with overtime and contracted agencies, and the cost is landing in the same line every month.

Rooms division budgets are being rewritten around agency labour, which costs between 30 and 60 per cent more than a permanent roster. The properties managing it best have re-cut room attendant allocations around actual stayover patterns rather than a fixed credit system.

Nobody has solved recruitment, but several have stopped making it worse.

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