Originally Posted by
jamesteroh
If they want to cut housekeeping they should do what Marriott and Caesars do and offer some kind of food credit or bonus points if you CHOSE to skip it and provide it daily for the guests that want it. I always opt out of housekeeping if there is some form of compensation like a food voucher. I'm sure the housekeepers will hate this as well since it will mean a cut in tips.
These types of changes won't affect an individual housekeeper. Whoever is on the schedule for the day will still clean the same number of rooms.
What will change is the overall size of the housekeeping staff. (Here, I'm assuming the hotel doesn't do something sleazy like move full-timers to part-timers to avoid paying benefits.) If in a post-COVID environment the hotel only needs to 100 rooms/day and they used to clean 200 rooms/day, they will simply shrink the staff.