Never mind the building managers…why don’t the cleaning services use robots then? Cleaning is why they exist and how they make money. If there were a way to do it more efficiently and with less expense, you’d think they would have noticed.
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it’s big mop. they cover their tracks and their record is spotless. even mention a robot, and they’ll clean your clock then hang you out to dry
the best motivators are good pay, safe and stable working conditions, and respect for a job well done. no wonder musk wishes he could rely on robots
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https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/san-francisco-california-labor-shortage-jobs-16679799.php
“Elsewhere in California hotels have been turning away guests due to the labor shortage.
The Hampton Inn in Folsom has 147 rooms, but general manager Enid Baldock could only rent 117 of them recently because she did not have enough workers to clean them.
“I was turning people away with 30 rooms (available). Ridiculous,” she said while stuffing bed sheets down a laundry chute to help out her skeleton housekeeping staff.“
Is there a different San Francisco without a labor shortage that we need to be aware of?
The airport I worked in tried those cleaning machines because of worker shortages. They had very limited real world utility and didn’t obviate the need for people.
But - sure - you do you when you mythically buy a large office building. Then lose it because companies leave or refuse to pay rent because your space is filthy. Or just because office space is so hard to rent when so many workers are remote or hybrid and lots of it is converting to residential.
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Again, floor-cleaning robots have been commercially available for two decades now. Yet even wealthy companies famous for being “early adopters” of new technologies (Apple, Disney theme parks, etc.) haven’t made a major shift toward replacing human janitorial staff with robots.
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Those companies are serious businesses that hire actual well-paid experts to research cost-savings options. Musk, in contrast, is doing this in a performative attempt to show his loansharks that he’s cutting costs and also to gain support from other techno-utopian Libertarian edgelords who share his contempt for manual labourers. It’s not like the corporate offices of Tesla do without a human cleaning staff, and that’s a company that puts a lot of thought into automating human tasks.
There’s certainly no automation technology that’s going to save him anytime soon in regard to reducing plant maintenance costs at Twitter. It’s silly to even discuss that as a real possibility to replace human cleaners there in the near or medium term.
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