Cleaning glass, cleaning the whole house, organizing and storing housekeeping services have become a new choice for "New Year's goods".

In recent years, the domestic industry in mainland China has developed rapidly. Today's housekeeping service has long been with the evolution of social development and the continuous improvement of residents' needs, and has become a more professional and extensive life service housekeeper.

"Since January 20, our company's housekeeping service has been full of orders, and we are so busy that we can't stop. Mu Haoyang, manager of Xinjiang Urumqi Love Star Service Co., Ltd., said.

Cleaning the glass, cleaning the whole house, organizing and storing ...... On the eve of the Spring Festival, dust and scale removal is an important way for every family to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and the housekeeping service has also ushered in the "pre-holiday fever". According to 58 Daojia data, the number of orders for housekeeping services on the eve of the Spring Festival in 2024 is expected to increase by 40% compared with the same period last year, and the demand for whole-house cleaning will increase by more than 300% month-on-month. Tianyancha data also shows that there are currently more than 2.978 million domestic enterprises in the mainland, of which more than 596,000 will be newly registered in 2023, an increase of 33% compared with the same period in 2022.

Demand for services is high

On January 15, 60-year-old Li Cuilian made an appointment for housekeeping services, including glass cleaning, whole-house dusting and kitchen cleaning. ”

This is the first time Li Cuilian asked for housekeeping cleaning services, her daughter remotely helped her place an order and make an appointment, charged according to the area, and the three housekeeping attendants went to work together, cleaning, sorting, cleaning, and cleaning the house in 4 hours. "I am very satisfied with the experience, and I have left their company's contact information, so I can call directly if I need to do so in the future. Li Cuilian said happily.

"I am busy with work every day, especially during the Spring Festival, I often work overtime, I come home late, and I don't want to clean up the housework after a tired day, so I make an appointment for housekeeping to come to the door every week. Zhang Zhixia is an employee of the Fuzhou power supply section, as a railway dual-income family, during the Chinese New Year, housekeeping service has become a must, "although the price will rise slightly during this time period, but it is within a reasonable range and acceptable."

The reporter of "Workers' Daily" searched a number of housekeeping service companies, and found that the original "on-call" order method changed to make an appointment in advance, and there are still a few days before the Spring Festival, and the price of housekeeping services in Urumqi has also changed newly: the price of whole-house cleaning is calculated per square meter, from the original 4.5 yuan ~ 5 yuan per square meter to 6 yuan ~ 7 yuan per square meter; hourly billing, from the original 50 yuan per hour, rose to 60 yuan ~ 70 yuan per hour.

Regarding the change in prices, Mu Haoyang said: "Approaching the end of the year, the market demand is larger than usual, but some employees go home for the New Year, so the cleaners on duty are working overtime, and the fees will increase, but it will not be outrageous." ”

In the face of the "short supply" market, in addition to the high-quality service personnel reserved in advance by housekeeping companies, freelance housekeepers also have an exclusive customer base.

Liu Xiaojing, who lives in Xiangtiyuan, Midong District, Urumqi City, entered the domestic service industry in 2019, and after entering the industry, she mainly took jobs through intermediaries. Because of the neat work and tidying, it has won the love of many customers. Since last year, she has had her own customer base. "They are all introduced by old customers, and I usually have a lot of contact, I know more about the situation of each family, and I can do my work quickly. Liu Xiaojing said that when the demand was not much on weekdays, she ran almost all over the Midong District, and since the end of December last year, new orders have come one by one, and she has to narrow the service circle and choose the nearest few communities to herself.

"Although the time is tight and the task is heavy, the reputation of the service cannot be lost, and the work of each household is satisfied with the customer, so I start the next one. Liu Xiaojing said.

Organizing and storage services has become a new demand

Looking at all the clothes in his house according to the classification of family members, and then according to the color, season, category, etc., and finally folded, hanging, wardrobe from messy to orderly, Urumqi citizen Wang Xudong couldn't help but sigh "This money is well spent".

As a new type of housekeeping service demand, in 2021, "tidying and storage specialist" will be listed as a new occupational job. Starting from 2023, more and more people in Xinjiang will begin to choose space organization and storage services, and more and more workers will learn and engage in space organization and storage work.

"Since last year, we have trained more than 200 people. Zhu Liting, a second-level technician of space organization and storage, said, "There is also an order for moving, packing and moving restoration in the near future, and I have to be busy for a few days." ”

Holding a small work box, wearing disposable masks, gloves, shoe covers, entering the user's home, and then taking out disposable garbage bags, alcohol watering cans, tape measures and other necessary supplies, Zhu Liting's day's sorting and storage work officially began: first screen the required finishing items, and then make reasonable use of the space for sorting and storage, "Space sorting and storage seems to be very simple, but there is actually a lot of knowledge." Zhu Liting said, "There is content such as sorting out and designing space planning, color matching, display aesthetics, etc., in addition, it is also necessary to help customers break away and think about their own lifestyle." ”

Zhu Liting learned about the space organization and storage work through the short video platform in 2020, and because she liked it, after a short consultation, she signed up for professional training.

"Space organization and storage is a skill-based type of work, which requires the organizer to constantly think and summarize. Since 2020, Zhu Liting has been practicing with her master and actively signing up to participate in the professional skills competition. In just 3 years, from entering the household to learning to talking, from daily work to competition platform, from junior organizer to technician organizer, she witnessed the process of sorting and storage services gradually being recognized, and gained her own life goals and directions.

"The more we get to the end of the year, the busier we get. Zhu Liting said that the space organization and storage work is charged by the hour, and does not "go with the market", with an average of 150 yuan per hour, but despite this, the salary of each organizer is different. According to the division of professional grades, the finisher is divided into junior to technician, and the salary of a day also ranges from 200 yuan ~ 1000 yuan, "like I am a second-level technician, the salary is higher than that of ordinary finisher".

Housekeeping into the community

"I was also worried that I wouldn't be able to find a housekeeper, but I didn't expect to be able to make an appointment at my doorstep. On January 31, Zhang Li, a citizen who lives in Midong District, Urumqi City, said.

Originally, Zhang Li planned to clean the house by herself, but her plan was disrupted due to a business trip, and seeing that the Chinese New Year was about to begin, she hurriedly contacted the housekeeping service online, but she did not admit that she could not be ranked in several companies. "Later, I heard from the community group that there are housekeeping service outlets in our community, so I thought about giving it a try, and I made an appointment on the same day. ”

In June last year, the first demonstration site of housekeeping service into the community in Midong District, Urumqi City, was listed in Huacheng Community, Anju Community, West Road Street, and Zhang Li was the owner of the community. According to Wang Ping, general manager of Xinjiang Sunshine Xiaoya Labor Dispatch Company, after receiving orders from community housekeeping service stores, personnel in and around the community can also receive orders nearby through training, "In this way, we have relieved a lot of pressure to receive orders during the Spring Festival this year."

Today's housekeeping service has long been with the evolution of social development and the continuous improvement of residents' needs, and has become a more professional and extensive life service housekeeper. In particular, there is "one old and one young" in the family, which exacerbates the demand of young people to choose housekeeping services.

In addition to the housekeeping service outlets that officially settled in the community, the owner groups of each community will also release housekeeping service news in a timely manner. Ren Fang, who lives in Urumqi's Nanhu Community, posted a message in the community group about "looking for a housekeeper", and then the community staff replied to her message and provided contact information.

"The cleaning recommended by the community staff is in our community, and I don't have to place an order, I can contact it directly, which is worry-free and reassuring. Ren Fang said. (Workers' Daily)

Editor: Si Yong