Hotels are issuing PANIC buttons to housekeepers due to sexual harassment problem

Hotels are attempting to tackle the sexual harassment problem against its staff by giving them panic buttons. The report from Bloomberg has revealed a number of stories regarding guests harassing housekeepers when they are cleaning rooms on duty. A survey by UNITED HERE in 2016 found that nearly half of housekeepers (49 per cent) had […]

Inside the lives of America’s anxious 1% — who hide housekeepers and nannies and don’t think they’re actually rich

Martin Hunter/Getty Images It’s not always easy being in the 1%.  Rachel Sherman’s book “Uneasy Street” highlights the lives of America’s top earners and the anxieties they face, including guilt and comparing themselves to their wealthy friends.  The New York Times also highlighted the anxiety of rich people in a recent article, saying “wealth frequently […]

How the Design of Hotel Rooms Makes Housekeepers Invisible

Margie Garay, a former director of housekeeping at New York City’s Four Seasons Hotel on 57th Street, extolls the virtues of turndown service, the nightly ritual of a second visit from housekeeping that’s only an amenity at the most luxurious of properties. At the Four Seasons, Garay told me for a book I was researching, […]