The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom

Re:The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom by turar on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @10:53AM (#11245979)

Gender 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. :)

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Re:The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom by voidlogic on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @10:57AM (#11246004)

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.

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Re:The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom by untog on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @10:58AM (#11246012)

> I imagine someone must have urination vs defecation stats.

Might make for a tricky office survey.

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Re:The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom by Thrymr on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:06AM (#11246075)

Luckily, the wired bathroom of the future will gather these stats for us!

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Re:The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom by teuobk on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:13AM (#11246139)

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.

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Re:The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom by voidlogic on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @03:54PM (#11248530)

Right, I was speculating about public restrooms specifically.

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Re:The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom by GFK_of_xmaspast on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:11AM (#11246125)

Plenty of downsides of gender inequality in tech for dudes beyond just that.

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