Better housing measurably reduces turnover and absenteeism. Here's how the numbers work out over a two-year period.
Accommodation is usually treated as a cost line to be minimised. That framing misses the second-order effects: recruitment cost, productivity loss during onboarding, and the compliance exposure that comes with substandard housing.
The MOHRE standards set a floor, not a target. Blocks that exceed it on ventilation, kitchen provision and recreation space consistently show lower turnover among the workforces we place — and turnover is where the real money goes.
Our advice to clients budgeting for a new intake is to model the fully loaded cost per worker over two years rather than the monthly bed rate. The better block is frequently the cheaper option on that basis.
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