Florida
Palm Beach households keep a long season. The residences are substantial, the standard is high, and the staff who do well here tend to stay for years.
Oceanfront and intracoastal properties, walled estates and compounds with guest houses, staff villas, pools, boathouses and grounds that require daily attention. Many families maintain a Florida residence alongside a northern one, which makes the movement of staff and supplies part of the household's annual planning.
Roles we search most often here
Even in the quiet months, a Palm Beach residence is maintained to an exacting standard. We look for staff who treat an empty house as carefully as an occupied one, and who understand that in a compound with guest houses and staff villas, the property itself is part of the job.
The winter season brings a fuller household — family, guests, and a social calendar that fills the weeks between the holidays and spring. But the people families keep longest are usually the ones who arrived before the season and stayed after it. We search with that in mind.
We look for professionals who have worked residences of this kind before: grounds, water features, staff housing, and the particular discretion a community this small requires. Where the family also keeps a northern residence, we plan the rotation of staff before the first hire, not after.
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