Company Bathrooms Done Right
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I’m currently working as an Information Security Engineer for a large banking company. I have to say that the bathrooms are an employees dream. Sure they have the usual expected stuff. Disposable seat covers, automatic flushers and soap dispensers, and a cleaning crew that cleans it several times a day. But they take it one step further. They have a garbage can by the door so that you can use the paper towel to grab the handle. It’s a tiny detail, but major in every way. If you’re going to touch the door handle with your bare hand, you might as well not even wash your hands in the first place.
They also provide tons of Purell around the office in several hundred locations (not kidding). I like to work for a place that has put in the time to think about these tiny details. Many places don’t. This is an example of a bathroom done right. If only every office in the world took the time to take care about the tiny details, they might not lose millions of dollars on lost productivity due to employee illness.
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Zenium
October 4th, 2009
at 4:47pm
I can tell you that a developer’s bathroom at a very old (and now new) major telecom company was the opposite of this. Cleaned maybe once a day (seemed more like once a week). Smelled awful. Always dirty. Very disgusting. Definite negative impact on work productivity. (Had to find the bathrooms closer to the executives.)
I’m glad I don’t work there any more.
JR Griggs
October 5th, 2009
at 9:33am
That is so funny. The garbage can by the door is a very big deal for me! I never touch the handle. Or if it is an outswinging door I can at least push it open at the bottom with my foot.