Labor is the single largest operating expense in senior living, yet much of it remains invisible in budgets and staffing models. This white paper examines how bathroom design quietly drives recurring labor costs through cleaning time, reactive maintenance, staff supervision, incident response, and administrative burden. Because labor is tracked by department rather than environmental cause, these costs rarely aggregate into something leadership can clearly see—until margins are already under pressure. This report shows how small design inefficiencies compound into thousands of additional labor hours per year, equating to full-time staffing …
