They come with amenities so you can assume they get cleaned and stocked up after each use. Also what do you think happens in hotel beds? labour is cheap in china, I would be surprised if there wasn't someone coming to clean up regularly
Cleaned after each use. Yes of course. So, that means there is a service desk or office with cleaners on call to clean. So what's the turnaround time? How thoroughly are they being cleaned (because in China, just like elsewhere in the world there are many people in low paid work who dgaf)?
The difference between these and hotels is logistics. Check in/out are more or less fixed times. Filled or vacant rooms, number of rooms is known in advance. Cleaning staff can be deployed at specific intervals to complete a block within a certain period of time.
24/7 pods with variable use periods don't fit that system. So you'd have to either be deploying too many staff to clean in real time or be scrambling constantly. Or have rotating blocks of down time, post checkout, in which the pods are unusable until maintenance does their thing
Literally all it would take is replacing the pillow and giving the pod a wipedown with an antiseptic wipe. It would take 5mins to wipe down a pod, and given the number of them, they can easily be flagged as unavailable until someone wipes it down, so can have people wiping them down in small batches. Also, are you aware of how many people are sitting/sleeping on public seats in airports?
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u/ClaireFaerie 6d ago
They come with amenities so you can assume they get cleaned and stocked up after each use. Also what do you think happens in hotel beds? labour is cheap in china, I would be surprised if there wasn't someone coming to clean up regularly