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  2. Domestic worker - Wikipedia

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    In 2015, the International Labour Organization (ILO), based on national surveys or censuses of 232 countries and territories, estimated the number of domestic workers at 67.1 million, [3] but the ILO itself states that "experts say that due to the fact that this kind of work is often hidden and unregistered, the total number of domestic workers could be as high as 100 million". [4]

  3. Homemaking - Wikipedia

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    Housekeeping by the homemaker is the care and control of property, ensuring its maintenance, proper use and appearance. In a private home a maid or housekeeper is sometimes employed to do some of the housekeeping. Housework is work done by the act of housekeeping. Some housekeeping is housecleaning and some housekeeping is home chores.

  4. Maid - Wikipedia

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    Legislation in many countries makes certain living conditions, working hours, or minimum wage a requirement of domestic service. Nonetheless, the work of a maid has always been hard, involving a full day, and extensive duties. Maids would be familiar with hard work and typically worked long hours in a week. [4]

  5. Housekeeping - Wikipedia

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    In commercial lodging establishments (hotels, resorts, inns, boarding houses etc.), housekeeping is the work of providing a clean, comfortable, safe and aesthetically appealing environment for the guests, and the operational department in a hotel is responsible for these activities in rooms, public areas, back areas and the surroundings.

  6. Work (human activity) - Wikipedia

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    Other social dynamics, like how labor is compensated, can even exclude meaningful tasks from a society's conception of work. For example, in modern market-economies where wage labor or piece work predominates, unpaid work may be omitted from economic analysis or even cultural ideas of what qualifies as work. [citation needed]

  7. Housekeeper (domestic worker) - Wikipedia

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    In the great houses of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the housekeeper could be a woman of considerable power in the domestic arena. [citation needed] The housekeeper of times past had her room (or rooms) cleaned by junior staff, her meals prepared and laundry taken care of, and with the butler presided over dinner in the Servants' Hall.

  8. Foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    Sample of the first page of a standard employment contract for a foreign domestic helper. The government of Hong Kong has drawn up rules and regulations concerning the employment, labour and conditions of stay of foreign domestic helpers.

  9. Employee benefits - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom, employee benefits are categorised by three terms: flexible benefits (flex) and flexible benefits packages, voluntary benefits and core benefits. "Core benefits" is the term given to benefits which all staff enjoy, such as pension, life insurance, income protection, and holiday.