If the bathroom environment is really the worst thing about your workplace, you're doing alright.
The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom
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#12We have two (2) cubicles and two (2) urinals for probably 200 males. One cubicle currently has a broken seat and the other is frequently (at least once a week) blocked with toilet paper and filth (properly splattered all over, of course).
It's the worst office bathroom situation I've ever encountered.
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#13The University I used to work for had started the practice of building several small one-person bathrooms next to one another, so the would be a block of three or four bathrooms by each other. I found this to a nice setup but I'm sure this would cost far more than a men's bathroom with toilet stall, urinal and sink and a women's bathroom with two stalls and a sink.
I used to go to night classes after working all day and would often times want to change from my business casual attire to something more comfortable. Having those types of bathrooms certainly made changing easier and more private.
I'm sure the University had various reasons for doing this, but I think the spark had come to help alleviate anxiety regarding bathroom use by non-cis persons.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Men cycle through a bathroom much faster than women when urinating (ever been to a sports event?). I imagine someone must have urination vs defecation stats. I'd like it be like 30:1 or something.
> I imagine someone must have urination vs defecation stats. Might make for a tricky office survey.
Luckily, the wired bathroom of the future will gather these stats for us!
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#15> OSHA rules require that workplace bathrooms remain clean and dry and a mop can slide right under partitions.
Well, that explains why so many public bathroom stalls in Europe are nice, private, fully-enclosed spaces and none in America are. Thanks, OSHA /s
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#16Everything about the stall door was irrelevant. They are made so cheap and with such gaps because, they are cheaper that way. They won't go down to the floor because, that would be 12" more material cost. They won't ever fit closely because, they sag and bend because they're cheaply installed. All the blather about how they could be different is ignoring the cost factor, which would be large. ON a different note, I v…
>Irrelevantly, they were marked Male and Female. Anecdotally, my office has about 60 employees and 8 individual bathrooms. They're fully enclosed with sinks and their own heavy closing doors. They also are all equipped with a white noise machine that's connected to the ceiling light switch. I guess we're pretty lucky to have this setup. About two years ago, however, someone complained that all of the bathrooms were b…
> Therefore, three of the restrooms are now women only, while the remainder are unisex. It seems a bit unfair, but nobody has cared enough to complain.
Even if today nobody complains, the company might have suffer a lawsuit in the future, by a disgruntled employee.
Better to fix that now, perhaps
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#17I spent some time last year working out a We Work office in NY and I will say one of the best things they did was create nice private bathrooms. Each stall was a small private room in itself, similar to some airport lounges.
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#18> OSHA rules require that workplace bathrooms remain clean and dry and a mop can slide right under partitions. Well, that explains why so many public bathroom stalls in Europe are nice, private, fully-enclosed spaces and none in America are. Thanks, OSHA /s
With the downside that cleaning them is a bit more difficult (and expensive), since you have to pay more attention to the (lower) end of the partitions, as a cleaner. More effort, or possibly even another OSHA violation because the cleaners would have to bend more (but I'm sure they can use a mop on the sides too, or something). There's also the matter of time spent cleaning.
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#19Gender inequity in tech has one downside if you are a male -- lack of bathrooms. If there is one male and one female bathroom on the floor, and male-to-female gender ratio is 5:1, then you're gonna have a bad time. :)
Plenty of downsides of gender inequality in tech for dudes beyond just that.
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#20We have two (2) cubicles and two (2) urinals for probably 200 males. One cubicle currently has a broken seat and the other is frequently (at least once a week) blocked with toilet paper and filth (properly splattered all over, of course). It's the worst office bathroom situation I've ever encountered.
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