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Our partner Robert Hanselman just posted some thoughts on the housing situation for newly hired staff. Enjoy… Providing housing for domestic staff is becoming an increasingly complex negotiating factor. The dramatic rise in the housing and rental markets has impacted everyone, and negotiating housing for household staff in today’s rental environment presents noteworthy challenges. Rising…
Here’s a quick article on the current builder’s view of staff accommodation in newer homes. Enjoy. Not every grand estate has a resident mixologist, but there’s plenty of room as back-of-the-house service areas have expanded in recent years. Zones set aside for staff have grown and become more sophisticated to accommodate and maintain blue-chip properties’…
Our friend and colleague in Los Angeles shares some great insights in this article from Business Insider. Enjoy! Emily Webb-Doskow is an estate manager for the properties of the wealthy and takes special requests, such as acquiring two pregnant cows for regenerative farming. The 51-year-old founder of the LA firm Webb & Baker offers a…
Take a look at this quick summary of current staffing conditions around LA. There are some great comments from multiple sources that give a sense of how clients are handling the return of staff. After letting go of household staff this spring, elite Los Angeles homeowners are hiring again but with extra precautions and also…
In today’s society money is the great divider, and raising kids to be respectful of all economic levels is important. This article shares a few ideas for families with higher levels of wealth. Raising children is hard, no matter how much money you earn. But wealthy parents have a unique hurdle: In a household where…
I love the way this employer and their staff decided to improve not just their own estate infrastructure, but the entire village. Recognizing the role of a health community around the estate is key to successful estate services. As the billionaire owner of one of the most successful fashion chains in the world, it will…
When your employers need to take luxury security seriously… …It has complete class VR 9 ballistic protection in both transparent and non-transparent areas, which means that it can withstand 7.62 x 51mm rounds from an M60, M14 and FN-FAL. The rear window isn’t armored, but the car does have a steel bulkhead behind the seats…
This is an interesting question and one we should all consider when employing or managing private staff. Last summer, in a luxury apartment complex outside New Delhi, all hell broke loose. It started when a woman accused one of her maids of stealing around $250. The maid then claimed that, as punishment, her employer wouldn’t…