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How many rooms fit in one shift?

Put in your shift length, your breaks, the time that never touches a room, and your own minutes per turnover. The calculator shows the full working — not just a number to argue with.

Your numbers

The shift

hours
min
min

Time per room

min
min
%
min

Check a board

rooms
The result
11
Rooms per shift, one attendant
In rooms Travel & setup Break
Productive minutes in the shift425 min
Blended time per room24 min
…including travel & restocking27 min
Clock time used by a full board7h 22m
Board check 14 rooms need 7h 48m — that fits inside the shift with 12 minutes to spare.

How it works

No hidden assumptions — this is the whole calculation:

productive = shift − break − setup
per room = (dep% × departure) + (stay% × stayover) + travel
rooms = productive ÷ per room

The result is rounded down. A board that needs 11.6 rooms' worth of time is an 11-room board, because the twelfth room is the one that gets rushed.

What it can't tell you

  • Whether your minutes per room are right — the defaults are placeholders, not benchmarks
  • How much rooms vary: a family room with a cot and a standard double are not the same job
  • Waiting time for late checkouts and rooms the front desk hasn't released
  • What the tenth strenuous room in a row costs a person physically

Every number above is an average standing in for a distribution. That is fine for planning a shift, and not enough for setting a norm.

Where your own minutes come from

The calculator is only as good as the two numbers in the middle — your departure and stayover times. Most properties inherit them from a spreadsheet, a brand standard or a contractor's quote, and nobody remembers measuring them.

Hotel IQ measures them automatically: a Bluetooth beacon identifies the room, motion sensors on a phone or smartwatch recognise the cleaning, and every turnover is timed second by second — per room, per segment, with no stopwatch and nothing for the team to enter.

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