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Re: The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom

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Post by mc32 » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 7:36 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #36

mc32 wrote: post #22

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Just make them all unisex. What's wrong with unisex bathrooms, so long as they have partitions and not troughs or heads out in the open and have the urinals sectioned off at one end.

I answered this in my post... > I have no issue with gender neutral bathrooms, but from what I hear around the watercooler, women's bathrooms are a LOT nastier than men's (or at least that's how women tell it). Too many women trying to hover and getting it wrong.

If the stalls are cleaned out nightly I don't see there being a cleanliness issue. People with gastric issues can cause nastier environs irrespective of sex or gender.

And if hovering is an issue then clean nightly so people don't feel they need to hover and second educate. Talk about it... Lastly think about squat toilets. Easy maintenance.

Re: The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom

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Post by voidlogic » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 8:54 PM UTC

teuobk wrote: post #21

voidlogic wrote: post #8

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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.

It's more like 6:1, though I don't have a good citation handy. However, some people seem to have a strong reluctance to defecate in public bathrooms, so the ratio in an office bathroom might be much higher.

Right, I was speculating about public restrooms specifically.

Re: The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom

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Post by mattmanser » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 4:34 PM UTC

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #35

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Are you saying the cost of 12" of chipboard is expensive? Because it's not. Especially not at trade prices. It's not blather, I'm not sure where you buy wood, but if you think the wood of bathroom door even makes up 1% of the cost of building a bathroom... And 0.01% of the cost of losing an employee to something so trivial as a horrid bathroom. Honestly, this sounds like a US-specific problem, in the UK none of the o…

It only matters, what is the marginal cost to the door vendor. Their profit margin is razor thin. They make those doors by the millions and sell them as a commodity. So yes even a few cents is too much. We proposed putting a fuzzy-logic controller into a Maytag washer. Maytag said, any controls had to come in under 75 cents including sensors and actuators, for them to make it up in pricing. We couldn't manage that ba…

This isn't a counter point, all you're doing is proving my point. The consumer is the person who's being an idiot here, not the manufacturer. You can buy bathroom stall doors without a gap.

But who buys a door which doesn't close the gap properly? That costs $1 less? In their multi-million $ buildings?

Only Americans.