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My wife had to work housekeeping for 3 months after college as a part of a hotel management program with her new corporation (she spent 3 months in major service areas learning the ropes).
She observed one of two universal housekeeping problems at every hotel she worked at that leads to your/our problem RainMan:
1. At hotels with good housekeeping staff levels, they are paid for the hours scheduled regardless and get to go home early if they finish their list of rooms early without losing hours/pay. If you're scheduled 8am-2pm but finish at 11am... You just effectively doubled your hourly pay since you get paid for 6 hours while only doing 3 hours of work. That was far more valuable to them then going slow and getting an hour or two of over time. In her experience, these individuals either had children and wanted to get home quicker to take care of them OR used the regularity of finishing early to commit to a second job in the afternoon whose officially scheduled hours may overlap with the housekeeping job. This was achievable because they pretty consistently could get done early by rushing us out of our rooms.
2. Equally common, hotels are understaffed with housekeeping. This is especially true with the current labor shortage. At those properties, you might only have 2 housekeepers to clean 60-80 rooms during a busy turnover day. To clean a room properly (vacuum, sheets, trash can, deep clean bathroom, etc.), it takes 15-20 minutes. If you have 30-40 rooms, that works out to 10-14 hours of work on a 6-8 hour shift... And that doesn't even include the additional time after turning rooms to run the washing machine for sheets and towels (depends on the size of the property, some outsource that) and restock your cleaning supplies. They do get paid over time, but working 20-30 hours of physical labor over time every week is a great way to get burnt out. These properties are very high turnover. When understaffed, starting as early as 6-7am cleaning rooms is the only way these ladies can get done in time to pick up their children from school or eat dinner with their families. Thus, they can be pretty aggressive in trying to clean the rooms on their list. The problem is most hotels don't have sophisticated inventory/live occupancy tracking in rooms available to housekeepers. They get a printed list at the start of the day of which rooms are expected to check out and need cleaned, but unlike the front desk, they don't have technology that lets them know when someone has actually checked out. At some properties, the housekeeping manager will jump in and help out (acting as additional staff), at others they sit on their ass and manage... Happy to collect over time pay themselves for playing candy crush on their phone all day.
So in summary: I don't know what the fix is.ore staffing is good. Too much staffing is bad. Technology would help. The door hangers described in OP are probably the easiest and cheapest fix.
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