Housekeeping Live

The floor is a map, and the day is one screen

Rooms placed on a grid per floor, coloured by their live state; one dashboard for the day; the numbers kept; and the group compared against its standard.

A room has a place on the floor. The map draws the live board with coordinates — the same colours, the same card on tap — and a hotel that has not placed its rooms gets them in rows of ten and drags them where they are.

One screen for the day

Rooms by state, attendants by progress, inspections waiting, requests open and overdue, faults open, rounds due, credits done against planned. The executive housekeeper stands in front of it at eight and at four.

The numbers are kept

The day's numbers are written once, daily, per hotel — minutes per clean, inspections passed, requests inside the clock, cost per clean, complaints, loss — so a month is sixty rows and a year is not a query over the story.

The group, the standard, and what does not add up

Every hotel is a row and row-level security decides how many rows. The group is ranked on cleanliness, productivity, cost, complaints and loss against the standard the group set. Exceptions are flagged by rule: a minibar variance above the threshold, linen that went out and did not come back, a clean logged in four minutes, a room passed by the person who cleaned it.

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