Housekeeping is the management and routine support activities of running an organized physical institution occupied or used by people, like a house, ship, hospital, or factory, such as tidying, cleaning, cooking, routine maintenance, shopping, and bill payment. These tasks may be performed by members of the household, or by persons hired for the purpose. This is a more broad role than a cleaner, who is focused only on the cleaning aspect The term is also used to refer to the money allocated for such use. By extension, it may also refer to an office or organization, as well as the maintenance of computer storage systems.
The basic concept can be divided into domestic housekeeping, for private households, and institutional housekeeping for commercial and other institutions providing shelter or lodging, such as hotels, resorts, inns, boarding houses, dormitories, hospitals, and prisons. There are related concepts in the industry known as workplace housekeeping and Industrial housekeeping, which are part of occupational health and safety processes.