In the "Now I've seen everything department," it turns out there's a website called bObsweep.com that employs Ali Afrouzi as "lead technologist and chief chore expert."
Afrouzi's job is to discover that 40 percent of women contacted in a national survey do more cleaning chores in the home than their partners do. That, and to promote bObsweep, a robotic vacuum cleaner.
The bottom line of this national survey of 2,000 men and women by Learndipity Data Insights was that gender differences still persist when it comes to housecleaning.
Oh, the humanity.
Nearly 40 percent of men surveyed said, however, that they would clean more regularly if it didn't take so much time. Afrouzi's recommendation, in this case, was "not to do it all at once."
"Segment your home into three, four, or five different areas — and tackle one or two zones over a couple of days," said Afrouzi.
Another recommendation: Streamline your tools.
"You only have to grab one bottle or tool and won't waste time cycling through wet wipes, sponges, dusters and the rest of the cleaning-bucket clan," Afrouzi said. Double up on time, he said, explaining, "The magic of automatic cleaning appliances like dishwashers is that they cut chore time in half — so what do you do with the other half? "Knock out another one."
