Daily commutes in London can be exhausting and mentally draining, particularly for domestic workers who face length commutes. Employers and clients alike are noticing their usual happy staff have less energy, more eyebags, and smile less.
Why? It’s because these same travel times take away hours from their family, children, and hobbies. Ensuring quality time is essential for these workers, but how can it be achieved?
Household-Staff are Human Too!
Imagine waking up at the crack of dawn, spending 90 minutes on a train, and working a mere 3 hours to then travel even more to a different job. For some house-hold staff this is a harsh reality, with little room for improvement.
The long distance jobs leave the absolute bare minimum for workers to eat, sleep, and spend time with family. After months of these jarring conditions, employers are still scratching their heads as to why they quit!
Before a worker, they are a human with lives, and ambitions. It often helps to think of your employees as family. You wouldn’t want your close family to be stressed out of their minds from making a living, would you? That is why it’s so important to adjust job locations to properly match caretakers.
How to Accommodate Quality Time for Caretaker and Caree,
To shave time in commute, and offer more freedom to caretakers and domestic workers, it’s essential to
- Assign Manageable Schedule – For any caretaker, their energy level and ability to complete tasks with a smile are a principal part of the job. Creating a schedule with break-time is integral.
- Commute Times – We prefer client and staff happiness, considering travel distance and cost to provide a fair placement.
- Delegating Employment – Agencies that deal with registering the employee oversee tax, national insurance, and other complicated liabilities. For a client, a hands-off method eliminates any stress from understanding these issues; A service Nomenial excels at.
We want our domestic workers to be as happy as possible, and to achieve that, they need time to relax at home, away from work, or on the subway.
Choosing an agency that Understands You, and your Conditions
Household staffing may seem simple on the outside, but is really a complicated task with several layers. Multi-tasking house objectives alone takes it’s mental toll when hours turn into days, and days turn into months. For employees, to keep the job sustainable you need an agency that comprehends your not a robot with unlimited energy.
Giving staff breaks for vacation, and quality time is just as important as receiving that 2 weeks of pay. Your agency needs to understand that, and adapt to You, and your circumstances. Nomenial helps both employers and housekeepers, like Maria from zone 6, by matching jobs with optimal travel times, reducing commuting costs, and improving work-life balance.
If your commute has been a burden on your ability to retain jobs, stay happy, and healthy, visit our website for more domestic work inquiries. One of our excellent staff members would be ecstatic to greet you with many possibilities that fit just right for your occupational needs
Explore the Full Story
- 1. Start with Act I
- 2. London’s Transport Zones
- 3. Too Far to Work
- 4. The Commute Problem
Works Cited
Living on the Edge: The Impact of Travel Costs on Low Paid Workers Living in Outer London Full Report
