Hospitality Blogs

‘Labour hire’ is where companies engage with a specialised service provider to connect them with experienced people who will deliver the skilled labour they need support with. In this blog, we will delve into the many scenarios where it is beneficial to engage with a housekeeping labour hire service and the kinds of accommodation properties where they can lend an extra set of hands.

At ahs hospitality, people are at the heart of everything we do. We champion diversity and employ wonderful hard-working people regardless of their disability, background or circumstance. Recently we hired our first candidate, from Barkuma, a specialist Disability Employment Service provider that operates in Adelaide and works with people with a disability – including Intellectual Disability, Learning Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Down Syndrome, to support them in finding and securing long term work.

Beyond the daily tasks of tidying rooms, making beds, and wiping down public areas, working in housekeeping in the hotels and accommodation industry can serve as an effective pathway into leadership. In this blog we will explore the soft skills people learn being a housekeeper and how they are transferable within the hospitality industry and valuable for those in any leadership positions.

Our parent company, RGF Staffing APEJ, offered team members across our brands in Australia the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to head to remote northeast Arnhem Land for an 11-day immersive volunteer experience at Garma Festival. Deborah De Smet, Operations Manager ACT, was chosen to represent ahs hospitality. Here’s a recount of her experience.

We're thrilled to celebrate 30 incredible years of hotel housekeeping excellence at ahs hospitality, where we've been proudly delivering our hotel housekeeping solutions across Australia and New Zealand to our clients.
As we reflect on this journey, we had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with our longest serving employee, Cheryle, who has been an integral part of the ahs hospitality community for 29 amazing years! Join us as we dive into Cheryle's unforgettable moments and her best-kept housekeeping secrets in our exclusive interview.

The year was 1993, Nelson Mandela won the Noble Peace Prize in recognition of his efforts to end apartheid and promote reconciliation in South Africa, Robin Williams redefined fatherly love in Mrs Doubtfire, and the world was introduced to the sounds of Radiohead with the release on their debut album, Pablo Honey. And in Western Australia, ahs hospitality was established as the first company to provide outsourced housekeeping services in Australia. It was a big year.