Monday, November 24, 2008

7 Effective Ways To Retain Your Domestic Helpers

By Alice Sy

Keeping your domestic helper satisfied and motivated may seem like an easy task at first, but you have to understand that your helper has her needs and own set of goals as well. When hiring a household help you have to realize that you are in effect hiring your own employee, and that you have to treat your helper as a useful means in keeping your household in seamless order.

Being a good employer means that your domestic helper will be more inclined to stay with you, instead of choosing to work with someone else. As much as possible, you have to make your helper feel that she is an important part of the family, even at the outset. This is also the ideal time to let her know your standards and guidelines in keeping the house clean and well taken care of.

Firstly, as the employer, you have to be clear about the wages and the benefits that your helper is entitled to during her entire stay with your household. Most disputes and disagreements typically arise from the lack of clarity and initial agreement on the wages, other benefits, and days-off for the house help. If you want your helper to be continually loyal, you have to provide her with just compensation.

Good motivation also starts in providing your domestic helper with her own personal space inside your household. If you want to keep her satisfied and motivated, she should be comfortable where she is. This is important for your housemaid to take care of your home as dutifully as she would to her own.

An ideal employer will also have to initiate excellent exchanges of communication. This is will assure your house help that she is indeed a part of a team - in this case the family or the household. This will also assist your helper in becoming more open and less awkward to the rest of the family members.

As an implement for added motivation, you should also provide your helper with cash gifts during important occasions like birthdays and other holidays. In this manner, your house help will feel that you are looking out for her contentment as well.

Looking after the contentment and the personal satisfaction of the domestic help is also one trait of the good employer. Providing your loyal house help with a few privileges every now and then, like having two days off instead of one, will make her feel more valued and trusted.

Although all these do not have to be done frequently, doing these consistently will surely make you the most favorable of employers. When you are good to your employers like your domestic helper, there is every reason for them to be loyal to you and your family as well.

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