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...DormAid LLC is a student-run cleaning service. The business has gone through extensive negotiations with a consortium of administrators and House Masters to work out mutually-acceptable policies regarding insurance, security, the living wage, and Massachusetts’ laws regarding cleaning agents. The founding of the company has been one of compromise and negotiation in an effort to ease concerns over the well-being of the Harvard community. In response to these concerns, DormAid has developed a business model that maximizes the benefit of having such a company operating on campus while minimizing, if not altogether eliminating, the detriments...
...Although DormAid does not in any way parallel the services provided by Harvard employees, the company has also made it a point to subscribe to the labor norms present on campus. All DormAid cleaning professionals are paid the same living wage that any similarly employed worker on-campus would receive. In this manner, DormAid is actively creating more jobs for low-income workers in the area and raising their rate of pay a full 25 percent above the off-campus rate...
Being a company formed by students to provide other students with a valuable service, DormAid operates at a low profit-margin to make its product available to the most students possible. At a price per clean of less than most DVDs, we have done our absolute best to ensure that one clean per month is as affordable as possible to as many students as possible...
...prevent friction between roommates, DormAid is a fully configurable service: students are able to choose how much and how often they clean—specifying dates, times, and specific rooms within the suites. In this way, one person’s decision to employ the service does not become a burden to that person’s roommate. Unlike a host of other products ranging from microfridges to water coolers, televisions, video, stereo, and gaming systems, the cleaning service DormAid provides can be easily bought by all or just by some members of a room—the cost split...
...cleaner space provided by a fellow roommate’s purchase. Dorm Crew workers will face a lighter load when conducting their seasonal full cleans of rooms that, in the past, have often not been cleaned throughout the year. Not to mention, the regular maintenance of the dorms that DormAid provides ensures their quality for generations of occupants to come...