Facts and froth with Jill Lowe The “Gatekeepers” Spotlight on Chicago’s Residential Door Staff
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When seeking to live in a Condominium or Co-operative residential building in Chicago, one may or may not include door staff as a crucial or essential element. In buildings with the highest level of security, the door staff are tasked with the responsibility to ensure that only permissible people enter the premises.This is achieved most securely by not permitting residents to have a key or fob entry. To know that strangers are not wandering in the public areas is vital for this level of security. Thus it is the door staff acting as the actual gatekeeper. In new buildings as developers look for streamlined and lower cost services, the inclusion of virtual door staff is becoming more prevalent. But it is not only new buildings contemplating a move to virtual door staff, and at this moment in time, when new labor agreements are being negotiated, it is especially important to value the door staff, in residential buildings.