| If you have employees that are traveling between | | | | 3. Know the mileage and time your employees should |
| cleaning locations you need to have a company policy | | | | be traveling. Either do your own tracking of the time it |
| for paying travel time. Once you decide on your policy, | | | | takes to travel between homes or use a mapping tool |
| add it to your employee manual, and then go over it | | | | like Just keep in mind that estimated travel time on |
| with each employee. Don't let your employees tell | | | | Mapquest may be wrong depending on traffic |
| YOU how they expect to be paid for traveling. | | | | conditions. You could also invest in GPS devices to |
| | | | track travel. |
| 1. The first thing to keep in mind is that you are not | | | | 4. Plan your employees' routes instead of letting them |
| required to pay travel time for the employee's time | | | | decide which route to take. Not all will be efficient with |
| spent traveling from home to work and from work to | | | | their time and may take a longer route than necessary. |
| home. You are however, required to pay your | | | | 5. Consider cleaning in teams of two or even single |
| employees for any travel time between jobs. If your | | | | maids in order to keep travel time to a minimum. One |
| employees are allowed to take a lunch break during | | | | or two people take longer to clean a home than a |
| the day, you will need to create a policy as to whether | | | | group of 3 or 4 people, so they won't be traveling to |
| they will be paid for this personal time. | | | | as many homes each day. When you have 3 or 4 |
| 2. Keep your policy simple and consistent for all | | | | people traveling together to several homes a day you |
| employees. Drive time adds up, so the easiest system | | | | have to pay each one for riding in the vehicle. |
| is to pay them from your location and job-to-job as | | | | Pay attention to how much money you're spending on |
| soon as they're on the clock. If you introduce a | | | | paying travel time to your employees. Even though |
| separate payment system for travel and one for | | | | you do have to pay travel time, these tips will help you |
| cleaning you are opening the door to a bookkeeping | | | | to make sure you aren't paying for wasted time. |
| nightmare. | | | | |