1. Domestic Couples Have a Wide Variety of Skills
For one thing, a well trained domestic couple often have a higher skill level than other domestics and excel in a variety of areas. For example, one member of the couple team may not just be a great housekeeper but a professional laundress as well as someone who is very knowledgeable about caring for fine clothes, antiques, marble, silver and copper. The other member of the couple team, perhaps the houseman, in addition to serving formally at the table, are often skilled estate managers and trained handymen used to supervising outside work crews and gardeners to maintain the grounds and outside property. Then again, inside the home, the housekeeper frequently has experienced managing the interior of the home, supervising and training other staff, dealing with both vendors and contractors, keeping the home well supplied with food and other necessities, receiving deliveries and activating alarm systems, etc.
2. One Member is Usually Skilled in the Culinary Field
Another area in which a domestic couple can be a definite advantage in improving the quality of service in the home is in the culinary field. More often than not, one member of the domestic couple pair is either a very good cook capable of handling parties or trained chef able to cook gourmet dishes for parties and special occasions. The advantages of hiring an appropriate domestic couple just go on and on as the next section will demonstrate.
3. They Have a Strong Professional Chemistry
Apart from the generally superior skill level of an appropriate couple over individual staff, there are several distinct advantages of employing a skilled couple over individual domestics. One involves the issue of working together. A domestic couple from many years of working together generally works more efficiently, smoothly and more harmoniously than two unrelated workers in the same home. There is also the additional advantage, in cases where problems arise with the couplet hat, they are usually worked out between them amicably without involving the employer. On the other hand, with two separate workers, the employer always needs to step in and resolve the dispute leaving one of the domestics unhappy and often angry. For a more serene environment with better working conditions, a trained, experienced couple is often a better solution.
4. Domestic Couples Stay in Their Position Longer
The above are far from the only reasons why hiring a couple may be a better solution for a home in which two or more unrelated people are employed. Another lies in the little talked about but relevant term, loneliness. Many housekeepers experience this when they live in a home for a long term period without their husband and family. This feeling is eased when they have their husband or wife with them. This can work to the advantage of the employer in increasing their longevity on the job lessening the need for replacement. Then too, a domestic couple usually occupies a smaller living space than two or three separate domestics and cost somewhat less than hiring two or three unrelated workers.
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Added to the already mentioned fact that each member of the domestic couple team is trained to do a number of tasks very well, affluent employers often find that they get far better mileage out of a domestic couple and in turn get a far better, more efficiently run home with a domestic couple than they ever could with several separate domestic workers.
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