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News and hospitality staffing trends from the expertise at HSS as well as other hospitality industry experts. We offer tips and tools to hospitality staffing professional from General Managers to Housekeeping Directors to Directors of Finance and more. We strive to offer our customers, partners, and all hospitality customers the latest on hospitality staffing trends that reflect the care and consideration that we take every day with the partners we serve.
HSS Heroes: Mother’s Day Addition
Another shout out to our team working in La Habra, California seen here holding flowers for Mother's Day. This group of incredible women have worked in various hotels and are today helping to clean and disinfect for distribution centers for pharmacies. Thank you to...
HSS Heroes: Cleaning for First Responders
A shout out to Margarita Q. another HSS Hero. Margarita has been cleaning rooms for first responders at a client hotel in Thousand Oaks, CA. Working with state and national regulations on PPE, she's staying safe throughout this crisis. Thank you Margarita! Like...
HSS Heroes: Cleaning Pharmacies
Another shout out to Gessenia P. and Connie A., two more of our HSS Heroes. Gessenia usually works as an admin/recruiter at the HSS Orlando branch office and Connie is typically working as an assistant manager at a major luxury brand hotel in Orlando. They are both...
HSS Hero: Cesar V. Helping Seniors During the Crisis
A shout out to Cesar V. Cesar is one of our HSS Heroes cleaning senior living facilities during the crisis. Normally Cesar is a lead supervisor for a major hotel in Orlando, but he's one of the many HSS folks taking up cleaning jobs on the front lines of the...
Remembering A Leader In Hospitality
Sirio Maccioni, the founder of the iconic Le Cirque in New York City, passed away yesterday. Maccioni was a real innovator in the restaurant hotel business. In these difficult times, his leadership and longevity reminds us what is great and resilient in this...
5 Cleaning Trends When Hotels Come Back
The hotel industry is going to come back online. We know this for sure. It's really just a question of when and, more importantly, how. HSS is already working with major hotel brands across the country to get properties back up and running and we’ve have seen...
How We’re Helping Senior Living Facilities with Hotel Staff
HSS usually works with hotel and resorts. Today, we're providing cleaning staff to senior living facilities. We're helping these new customers fill their needs for qualified workers and helping put displaced housekeeper, food prep staff, and janitors from hotels to...
Getting Hotels Back Online
5 Keys to Cleaning for Hotels to Reopen We've started to work with hotels and management companies to help them come back online after this crisis begins to subside. Everyone in the hospitality industry is looking ahead toward the other side of this period with a big...
Thanking HSS Heroes
Like many businesses in the hospitality sector, the coronavirus pandemic has severely impacted our business here at HSS. However, we’ve been able to turn our focus quickly to areas that do have a need for cleaning services, and by deploying our dedicated workers to...
A Message to Employees: Social Distance at Work
At HSS, we're working with employers across the country to find positions for displaced hotel, retail, and restaurant workers. Read more about how we're working through this crisis here.We Care About Your Safety! At HSS, we care deeply about your safety and those...
Cleaning Logistics Centers and Warehouses During The Corona Crisis
Our teams are helping warehouses and logistics centers stay open and sanitized. We've teamed with a number of large corporate brands to enhance their surface cleaning efforts using housekeepers and cleaning staff displaced from hotels. It's about keeping spaces...
HSS Cleaning Crews Keep Pharmacies Open
HSS is working with major pharmacies chains across the U.S. to keep space open, cleaned, and sanitized during the crisis. Cleaning crews normally employed at hotels are being dispatched to stories with cleaning gear and chemicals. We're proud of the work our teams...
How The Corona Virus Is Spread
Here is great video on how the virus actually spreads. This highlights the need for surface cleaning that is consistent. One off deep cleans can be an important part of the strategy, but day-to-day surface cleaning, particularly in high-touch areas, is vital.
Amazon on Cleaning Warehouses
From the Amazon blog on the importance of cleaning in their fulfillment offices: We have increased the frequency and intensity of cleaning at all sites, including regular sanitization of door handles, handrails, touch screens, scanners, and other frequently touched...
Evolving Hotel Needs During COVID Crisis
As National Guard Troops and other government personnel are deployed during this crisis, we’re hearing back from our hotel clients of growing need for cleaning services. HSS is here to help with a field organization ready to deploy housekeepers and public area...
A Message from Tim McPherson, President, HSS on COVID-19
I don’t need to tell you that the COVID-19 virus is having a huge impact In the world of hospitality; you’re experiencing it every day. As the largest supplier of staffing to the hospitality industry, we’re feeling it through our customers, our staff and through the...
COVID-19 Statement
The COVID-19 virus has obviously had a heavy impact on the hospitality industry. HSS has been working with customers and employees to work through this challenging time. We are working with customers to provide enhanced cleaning services and staff for public area...
Interview with Hilton President and CEO, Chris Nassetta
Here's a great interview with Chris Nassetta, President and CEO of Hilton. Nassetta speaks with Fortune Editor-in-Chief, Clifton Leaf at the Great Place to Work’s annual 4ALL Summit. He addressed how Hilton has developed a culture that has put us atop the Best...