Housekeeping workers struggle as hotels ditch daily room-cleaning


By AGENCY

Due to labour shortage and budget restraints, many hotel brands in the United States no longer provide daily housekeeping services. — Pexels

After guests checked out of a corner room at the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort on Waikiki beach, housekeeper Luz Espejo collected enough trash, some strewn under beds, to stuff seven large garbage bags.

She stripped the linens from the beds, wiped built-up dust off furniture and scrubbed away layers of grime on the toilet and bathtub. She even got on her hands and knees to pick confetti from the carpet that a heavy-duty vacuum failed to swallow up.

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