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The day is opened, planned, handed over and reported

The night audit opens housekeeping's day with the cleans, the preventive work and the public-area rounds; the supervisor plans it from the bookings and hands it over in writing.

The day does not start with a supervisor writing room numbers on a sheet. The night audit opens it: each room's visit decided by rule, the preventive jobs due today, the public-area rounds due by the hour, and the people on the roster.

Planned from the bookings

The manpower forecast is arithmetic on the chart: for each of the next days, the check-outs, the stay-overs and the arrivals, each worth its visit's credits times the room type's multiplier, divided by what an attendant does in a shift. The supervisor sees how many people tomorrow needs before tomorrow.

Handed over

A shift ends with a handover: what is done, what is not, what is broken, what a guest is waiting for — written once, signed by the person leaving, read by the person arriving. A handover is not edited after it is signed.

Reported

The day closes with its numbers: rooms cleaned, minutes per clean, inspections passed and failed, credits per attendant, faults raised and fixed, requests answered inside the clock and outside it. The dashboard and the group comparison read the same rows.

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