How Housekeeping Training Can Help Save You Money

Housekeeping Training is often regarded as expensive (training fees), time consuming (average of 200 training hours), and sometimes useless – everybody knows how to clean, we were trained since we were young. However, only a few appreciates the value of Housekeeping training because they either need it to apply for a job, or sees the true value and savings of actually learning.

Housekeeping training can help save time and money in a lot of ways. From cutting wastage cost and loss of cleaning materials to optimizing working time, having your household help or office housekeeping staff undergo training can help you stretch your budget.

Training for Household Help

A lot of us think “why should I spend training my household help when they already know how to cook and clean? Why should I when they won’t be staying with us for a lifetime?”. Well, have you done the math on the times you went over your monthly budget for cleaning materials? Have you counted how many times you have to ask your household help re-do the cleaning, which meant using more cleaning products? How many instances did they use the wrong cleaning product? Probably not quite a lot, but let’s put some number in them.

Let us say, your household help went over the budget for all the cleaning materials by One Thousand Pesos (P 1,000.00) per month. That is P12,000.00 a year!  You can always say to them to be careful in using those cleaning products, or use a cheaper alternative, but with no knowledge on how to use these cleaning products EFFECTIVELY, you will still end up buying more. This amount may or may not include accidental spillages, times you hired another household helper as a reliever during their sick days, and the trips to the emergency room because of poor cleaning practices.

Looking at the table above, if your household help received some housekeeping training, you save as much as P 17,520.00 a year!

If ever you choose to decide to have your household help undergo housekeeping training, consider where you will have them enrolled and the hours or days it would take. Whether you will be shouldering the training fee, you have to consider that during those training days, someone has to shoulder daily expenses of the household help. This is something that CMDA Cleaning Academy can help, with optimizing training to fit your household housekeeping needs to fit in the shortest amount of time.

Training for Office Housekeeping

If you have hired your office housekeeping staff from a manpower agency, hopefully they have provided training for hard skills and soft skills that will meet your office housekeeping needs. However, if you have directly hired them, chances are, you will need to train them. What are the tell tale signs? Your office is going beyond the budget for purchasing cleaning supplies, there are persistent housekeeping concerns (like stinky washrooms, washroom and carpet stains), there are times you catch your housekeeping staff doing nothing, there are employees always going on sick leave due to respiratory (asthma or allergy) or gastrointestinal (LBM) problems, or a combination of these cleaning related concerns.

These signs have a corresponding monetary value for each, and they come off as company expenses. Losses and wastages can amount to up to P 2,000.00 a month, which would mean it could go as high as P 24,000.00 a year! Unproductive hours of your housekeeping team cost you money as well. An hour based on Metro Manila’s minimum wage today is about P 67.00. If every day, for 22 days in a month, a janitor is unproductive, that is P1,474.00 a month or P 17,688.00 per year! That’s the amount of money your company pays for someone to do nothing, and still, have problems with the office cleanliness.

Looking at the table above, if your office housekeeping staff received some housekeeping training, you save as much as P 48,132.00 a year!

If ever you choose to decide to have your housekeeping staff undergo housekeeping training, consider where you will have them enrolled and the hours or days it would take. Whether you will be shouldering the training fee, you have to consider that during those training days, someone has to shoulder daily expenses of the staff. This is something that CMDA Cleaning Academy can help, with optimizing training to fit your household housekeeping needs to fit in the shortest amount of time.