Signs of the Times: Reasons to Hire a Maid Service to Help You Around the House

So many of us lead incredibly busy lives and when we get back to the house at the end of another hectic day, it is difficult to get any motivation or energy to start cleaning.

If you hire a maid from Imtidad Employment Solutions for example, you will have got it covered and you could be coming home to a spick and span property, which is always a nice feeling.

If you are thinking about hiring a maid service, here are some things to consider and reasons why it might be a good time to get some domestic help.

Making your life easier

One of the principal reasons why you may want to hire a maid service is so that you can get some much needed help with all of the domestic chores around the house that you struggle to keep up with.

Some of us have a slight pang of guilt that it might be a bit decadent to consider hiring a maid and might even feel that you should just make the time and get it done yourself.

If you are working long hours, raising a family and trying to have a social life too, there are only so many hours in the day. When it comes to the point where you are faced with a pile of laundry, a sink filled to the brim with dishes and numerous other cleaning tasks to fulfil, you will soon realise how physically and mentally tired you are.

A list of household chores is hardly going to inspire you to find some renewed energy levels, so it makes sense to try to make your life easier by employing a maid service.

Professional job

When your home looks spotless and all of the clothes have been laundered and neatly folded away, it can be quite satisfying.

The problem is not just finding the time to get all of these tasks done, the truth of the matter is that not all of us are either that keen about cleaning and maybe even not that good at it.

Hiring a maid service should ensure that you get a professional job done. The people coming into your home know exactly how to get the best results and won’t be fazed by a mountain of dirty dishes or a dusty room.

How much is your time worth?

This is a question you should ask yourself when considering the option of hiring a maid service to clean your home on a regular basis.

If you do a basic calculation to work out how much you get paid per hour at work and then work out how many hours you are spending each week doing domestic chores that could be handled by someone else, you will probably realize that your time is probably better spent elsewhere and not cleaning.

It won’t take you long to do the math and more often than not, you will see that you are able to hire a maid service for a lot less than if you were paying yourself on your hourly rate to do the job yourself.

Health and wellbeing

It almost certainly won’t be the first thing that you think about when considering whether to employ a maid service to help you with your domestic chores, but your health and wellbeing are important considerations in the equation.

Finding time each week for some downtime with family and friends or to pursue some leisure activities, is going to prove beneficial to your mental and physical health.

If you spend a lot of your spare time trying to keep the house clean and the laundry pile under control, the long term effect on your health and wellbeing could become a consideration.

Employing someone to take the strain on the domestic chores, so that you can create some quality time away from work commitments, definitely has some benefits.

Get some of your time back

It seems that when you add all of the weekly chores up, you could be spending somewhere between 15 and 20 hours a week, on top of the work that you do to earn money.

When you look at those figures, it is little wonder that these calls on our time have created what has been termed the sandwich generation, with very little true leisure time available to them.

If you want to free up some time and enjoy the chance to enjoy a leisurely family meal every now and again, rather than grabbing a sandwich on the go, it might be time to consider hiring a maid service.

Zacree Zain, 33, is the founder of Imtidad Employment Solutions. Equipped with a Master in Business and 8 years of experience in the audit and banking industries, Zacree was driven to bring better domestic help to Singapore families when he founded Imtidad. Based in Singapore, Imtidad has 2 key specializations which is to provide job placements for domestic helpers from Indonesia, Philippines and Myanmar and staffing solutions for foreign workers (Vietnam, Philippines, India & Bangladesh) for the Hospitality, Medical, F&B, and Manufacturing industries. As the hallmark of the Imtidad brand, service excellence continues to be the reason for its ongoing success.