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Ah, yes, I can see you're trying to figure out ways to strengthen corporate synergies with hot steamy coworker action. Let me help you with that.
Option 1: Orgies
Orgies are a great way to help get your employees up close and personal with each other. They can meet, talk, and share their loads before sharing their workloads -- truly a great way to see all the facettes of your worker bees without relying on extensive hotel rooms. Just be sure to provide all the basic necessities.
Option 2: Add a dark room to the Cafeteria
For a quick and easy way to destress and mingle, your coworkers can get right in their orifices before going to their offices. It's a surefire way for everyone to be relaxed and content in their daily routine and take care of distractions quickly
Option 3: put a pineapple on the watercooler.
If you'd like, I could make a list for the dos and donts of any of these great options or provide you with product links so you can start having the accommodations built.
No, its not. If you mean its reducing the supply of shareable hotel rooms, technically its not that, as the amount of rooms is not changing. The design and features are being made to intentionally create social discomfort between people to encourage or discourage a behavior. It is technically hostile design.
It's reducing the quantity of customers they can accommodate.
If you're a hotel with 50 rooms and 2 beds per room, and you start enforcing 1 guest per room, then you go from being a hotel with 50 rooms that can hold 100 guests into a hotel with 50 rooms that can hold 50 guests.
Complete amateur, actually. Maybe that's not the technical definition, but that's the effect I can see.
But hotels dont care about the number of guests, they care about the number of rooms sold. I f the hotel normally sells 25 of their 50 rooms, and this change gets them to sell 50. Then its a good change for them.
God, I stayed at one in Amsterdam that I didn't even want to share with my husband! The bathroom was a frosted glass tube in the middle of the room. You could see DETAILED outlines of everything going on on there, and there was also no sound (or smell 🤢) separation at all. Also, the room was tiny, so when you were lying in bed and the other person was using the toilet, their but was like less than a foot where you were sleeping, with only a thin piece of curved glass and a few inches of empty air between the mattress and the toilet. Why?? Literally the least comfortable, least romantic hotel stay ever. Worse than the bed and breakfast room full of taxidermied birds.
Yeah I’ve been in a hotel in Germany that also didn’t have a fully sealed glass separator between the room and the bathroom. Even for the purposes of not discouraging people to share rooms I don’t want to share my bedroom with my own smells either
It would suck for a traveling family, though. The parents would be fine seeing each other, nothing they haven't seen before, but with kids there would be some serious issues.
My thoughts exactly. My family always used our hot tub in the nude, bathrooms were only locked when going #2, etc. It normalizes and desexualizes the human body in a healthy way. I feel like the US's puritanical culture honestly causes more harm than good with this one.
The puritanical culture is still way to prevalent in some areas of the U.S. I've straight up met guys that started getting weirded out about other people being close to their siblings and holding hands with them/friends. I think their minds are so warped from being so deprived of human touch
My daughter is adopted and has severe ptsd from abuse at bio home. Her seeing us naked would be extremely triggering. Any hotel like this would be an immediate no.
It’s just a cultural difference. I haven’t seen my parents naked since I was so young that I had no qualms about barging into bathrooms where people are showering, and my parents weren’t even okay with that, they’d cover up as fast as possible and make me leave. That’s pretty standard in America. If you’re older than like 3 you don’t see your parents naked.
As someone who comes from a family where it was perfectly normal to briefly walk around naked when anything else would be a minor inconvenience (example: Dad every morning strolling from the shower to the collective wardrobe room butt-ass naked bc he couldn't be bothered to pre-pick his clothes), the concept of "t-shirt in the pool for everybody" is ... probably just as alien to me as my situation is to you.
I sometimes forget that this is so different culturally. I'd say that in most families I know, it's pretty normal to see your parents naked. Then again, we also go to the sauna with a bunch of naked strangers, so, all things considered, naked family members are pretty tame in comparison.
Though tbf, I would probably draw the line at seeing my colleagues naked if it can be avoided.
It is interesting how deeply ingrained cultural norms can be in our minds. Like I know logically there's nothing wrong with the nude human body and that seeing your family naked is perfectly normal in many cultures, but the thought of seeing my parents naked makes me so uncomfortable
My dad was routinely naked as a kid, and still even as an adult and him as a skinny old man. My mom was less naked around the house, but wasn't a big deal to see her in bra/underpants.
We'd also go to the Y often and that's always a sea of naked people. Used to sit in the sauna as a kid with old naked dudes, was perfectly normal (though lots of Scandinavians in my region, including our family to a large degree).
This is in the US too FYI, but the US is hardly a mono-culture.
It was definitely uncomfortable when I went to my mom's house (because she was in the middle of a meth-induced psychosis) and heard her talking in the bedroom, so I go back there to see her in tennis shoes, end of list.
completely a different topic of discussion but this is probably one of the best arguments for online privacy. since it isn't just a theoretical situation, in many situations, you must actively find a hotel that doesn't have these bathrooms.
I hate this even just as a married couple. Just because my husband and I have seen each other naked and showering doesn't mean I want him to watch me poop. We've never been that relaxed around each other lol.
Depends on age, maturity, and modesty preferences.
Small kids don't really care. Pre-pubescent kids might kind of care about modesty but ultimately wouldn't be a real problem. Teens and up and it all depends on how modest the most modest person is.
People forget there are people who are completely fine with nudity because it is not inherently sexual.
Scratch that, I also don't want my wife to see me take a shit? Not everyone is comfortable to such degree so getting a room like that would be a nightmare for me
To be fair, if I'm expected to travel for business, I expect them to pay for single occupancy. I'm not some bougie corporate type either, book me in the Best Western for all I care. But in this day and age I expect my own room.
Glass partition is also probably cheaper than a separating wall.
Ngl though, it makes the hotel room feel like I'm back in a brothel. We always had at least a shower/bath in the room, and it really feels in the room when someone is in the bathroom with just glass between you
As someone who has extensive experience working in hotels (all kinds of positions, all the way to management), but who's left that life behind due to the amount of overly greedy scummery coming from the top I witnessed in many of them in the back offices...
Welll... The mindset does track and fit to a T, that much I can say confidently.
Vast majority of business travelers have their own room. It’s totally expected and a pretty minor expense for anything worth sending people out in person.
I’ve shared a room with a coworker and we had this situation. We just had to be up front with each other that neither of us was modest and neither of us cared.
This is probably the likely answer, also could get them cheaper insurance or something along those lines too... lots of people are found dead in bathrooms. Maybe being able to see right inside lowers that.
fuckin must be. i went on a boys trip and shared the room with a dude cuz it was just for a night and imagine my surprise when the shower was clear glass.
Not just business travelers but anyone not in an intimate, romantic relationship with the other guest. Even then…do you want to actually see them using a toilet? lol
I’ve worked for a dozen companies over the last 30 years and traveled for all of them and not one of them ever asked anyone to share a room. I think you’re vastly overestimating that as a problem
I had one of these while traveling with my ex. Dinner the night before did not sit well with me. Not the kind of thing you want only frosted glass between you and a romantic partner for though.
Do co-workers really share rooms?? I travel often in my line of work with co-workers, and regardless of which company it has been for, we always get our own rooms. I could not imagine doubling up.
I wouldn't want to have a room like that with other family members, friends, or even people I'm dating either, so It's doing a lot more than that. I just flat wouldn't want to stay in a place like that unless I was entirely alone.
It's so that you can watch the prostitute while you shower. It's the rapist-class answer to "it's so hard to make the whore clap the whole time i shower (so i know she's not rolling me)".
My wife works the front desk at a hotel (dog is now retired) and she posits that this would be even weirder for families.
So my suggestion is that this is to encourage people to get more rooms instead of having to see into the bathrooms which is just so diabolical it could actually be true.
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u/Far_Potato9948 20d ago edited 20d ago
Forget where I saw it, but someone put forth a theory it's to discourage business travelers from sharing rooms