If I took a poll now among ten families on their experiences with domestic staff, I am confident that I’ll have an overwhelming result of negative experiences compared to positive. My guess would be 8:2 or 9:1. Considering that the average employer may have tried […]
Last year, I posed a question to my largely female Instagram audience, wondering if they would feel secure or at ease enough to delegate the hiring of domestic help to their spouses. I’m referring to the recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and other processes. Your guess may […]
Last year, I posed a question to my largely female Instagram audience, wondering if they would feel secure or at ease enough to delegate the hiring of domestic help to their spouses. I’m referring to the recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and other processes. Your guess may […]
If you have ever been curious and gone researching about existing global policies that favour homes and families, particularly looking to the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) which currently has the world’s attention, and found nothing, you are not alone. It is surprising to see that […]
So far, we have unlearned three ideologies; perfection, ownership and packaging. Today, we’ll unlearn misplaced expectations Have you ever heard the phrase “Jack of all trades, master of none?” I’m sure you have. It is often said to refer to people who do everything but don’t have […]
I stumbled on an online conversation some women were having a few years ago, each of them stating reasons why they were not comfortable assigning the role title “Household Manager” to any domestic staff. I didn’t understand why a simple title could be a problem. […]
I have see many employers willing to accommodate some mistakes and errors of new domestic staff upon resumption. But how many mistakes does it take until it becomes too many? When should an employer start to get worried and move in to intervene in the […]
I had a pastor a few years back who used to say that the reason Adam failed the test in the garden of Eden was because He was created as a fully grown man and did not have the opportunity to grow. Well, this may […]
It was about two weeks ago I came across a post on social media. A woman wrote in for suggestions on how to get lice out of the hair of her two young girls. She was devastated, especially when she discovered that they got it […]
This will be the first of many blogs in a series I will tag UNLEARNING. There are many ways we approach domestic staffing that may seem normal because we have been conditioned by our environment to normalize it. But when what we call “our […]