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It’s Time to Start Talking About Panic Buttons for the Hospitality Industry
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f the past few years have taught us anything about employee safety, it’s that we urgently need to update hospitality worker safety. One way to protect staffers is with panic buttons. Already-high employee turnover in restaurants may see a greater increase due to employee harassment and abuse. According to a survey of restaurant workers from Black Box Intelligence, one of the main reasons workers reported leaving the industry was due to emotional abuse and disrespect from customers and managers. Joblist reported that 58% of restaurant and hotel employees intend to quit their jobs by year end. But the news isn’t all bleak. Last summer one of the fastest growing employee safety device providers, Relay, shared survey results revealing that nearly
50% of hospitality workers would consider quitting their jobs for access to better, safer workplace communication technology. Want to keep your own staff happy? Upgrade their tech and help them feel safer. The hotel industry is evolving by requiring panic buttons to protect workers. Hopefully, the rest of the hospitality industry will follow suit. A new series of laws related to hotel staff safety are currently being rolled out around the nation. These panic-button mandates require hotels to provide panic buttons for worker safety. The mandate is meant to empower hospitality staffers who may find themselves in dangerous situations. With panic buttons easily accessible, an employee may use a panic button to summon help if they are in danger or if an emergency takes place in their presence.
As summer and business travel increases, restaurants, bars and hotels must commit to improving front line worker safety. Relay's panic button and indoor location tracking offer an easy and cost-effective solution that combines panic with the two-way communication that hospitality workers already use daily. Relay is establishing a benchmark for the next technological revolution that focuses on innovative, durable, and highly adaptive voice-first technology for the hospitality industry and beyond. Our vision is to empower teams of any size with technology that allows them to safely and quickly connect to the people and information they need to get their jobs done more efficiently.
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