Re:The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom
by peterwwillis on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:46AM
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There's still no good reason for the labeling. Take Starbucks for example: two individual gendered bathrooms. When someone is taking a long time in one bathroom, invariably someone of the 'incorrect gender' will use the next available room, because there's a single line of people in a crowded space that all need to go and nobody cares who uses a single person water closet.
And before anyone mentions cleanliness, my anecdotal experience (from experiences like the Starbucks) is that both men and women's toilets are dirty at about the same rate. I would love a janitor to give their observations :)
Re:The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom
by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:54AM
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Ok I volunteered at a parent-cooperative preschool. I cleaned the bathrooms. The girls' bathroom was shockingly worse than the boys'. A data point.
Re:The Office of the Future Will Still Have a Terrible Bathroom
by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:19AM
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Those dispensers cost ~$10. Cheap to have them in every bathroom. The guys are not going to have a conniption fit if they see them. So there's no longer a good reason to mark individual bathrooms as far as I can see.
There are also social issues, is a one stall / one urinal a single occupancy or not? Technically there's two holes.
Also you'd be surprised architecturally how many are precisely arranged such that a strategically located adjacent closet could be sacrificed to double or triple the bathroom size at a later date, if it because necessary.
(edited to add, if you assume the massively dominant cis, the labeling is to prevent office romance trysts, along the lines of joining the mile high club on a plane but without the plane)