Housework services lend a helping hand

Housework services lend a helping hand When a firm employee first visited the website run by homemaker service Bears Co. At the same time, the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan has received an increasing number of complaints, such as agencies failing to meet clients' expectations. Lifestyle critic Sachiko Oki, who runs the house cleaning business Frau Grupe Co. Although the number of services offered and local availability is limited, the company often gets requests from people living away from home who want the company to check on their parents while doing the housework. Minimaid Service Co. Some customers spend more than 150,000 yen a month, the company said. Duskin Co. However, the company has received many requests for standard tasks such as cleaning single room apartments and drying clients' futons in the sun. Security firm Secom Co. Nichii Gakuin Co. The company is sometimes asked to help you bathe elderly people at inns when they are traveling. The coupons, available at stores including Bic Camera or Aeon stores, are also a popular gift. Bears' deluxe course, to which 70 percent of its customers sign up, costs about 34,000 yen a month as part of a yearly contract. Helpers do two hours of chores at their clients' homes once a week and will even come when the client is absent. Clients first discuss a list of chores--pick up the kids, make dinner before the parents come home and so on--with a Bears employee at their homes. Its standard service costs 11,655 yen for 2-1/2 hours. Keio Corp. It recently expanded its services, and staff can accompany clients while they shop or do housework in their absence. Also in Chuo Ward, Kajitaku Co. Housework services lend a helping hand Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 30/03/2012