Sounds like a nice hotel. I've left cameras and pillows behind in hotel rooms, and damn if any cleaning person ever admitted to finding them, even within an hour of checkout. (Who wants a used pillow? eww)

The hotel obviously wants to praise their employee, both as PR for their brand name, and retaining a reliable/trustworthy worker.

Made me wonder why the Japanese man who got his $50,000 returned didn't go to the press, calling the finder a hero, and giving him a nice finder's fee. That would have been a good deed.