New offices all unisex toilets

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I have to find new offices and the best ones I've found so far are in a block where each floor has an accessible toilet and a "block" of unisex toilets.

The block is a room off the corridor with individual floor to ceiling cubicles, with a sink in each.

At a staff meeting today I presented the option and explained about the toilets, to gauge what objections there might be.

There were none, at all, in fact people seemed perplexed that I might think there would be.

Our new office only had unisex toilets there is no lobby/communal area they are individual small rooms off a main walkway with sinks etc inside. Within days there were teams messages flying around about toilet seats being left up, pee on the floor, using the air freshener etc. Now the two on the right are used by the men and the two on the left by the women. Informal agreement, everyone happier

Mens used to leave the toilet seat up, they smelt etc
None of us ever used the unisex loo unless we really had to

Maybe have training sessions on how to use the loo?

Grim. I guess I’m lucky to have always worked with men who can use a toilet properly.

If people are able to go to the toilet in private, I’m sure adjusting clothing in the same space wouldn’t be an issue

I feel sorry for the women who have to share. Have you ladies ever been in the men’s? I have, by accident, and the smell that hits you is pure concentrated wee. I almost blacked out (hyperbole).

Sounds very sensible OP.
I use a unisex loo at work and it’s absolutely fine.

I’m a lecturer and we have mainly unisex toilets on campus. They are absolutely rank, and staff and students, male and female, loathe them. We have two female “staff only” toilets but they are so busy with female students who don’t want to use the mixed ones that it’s usually impossible to get in if you are rushing between classes. (I see male students going into the staff men’s loos too.)

I tend to nip to the shopping centre at lunch and use the toilets in there, and last year got a kidney infection from going whole days without a wee.

We had no consultation on it - it was just presented as a thing that was happening “for equality”.

do women not have anus hairs?

It seems me too, at my current place we have a split between men's, women's and a unisex and the unisex is always fine. At an old job all the bathrooms were as described above, completely contained with a toilet, sink, mirror, bin. Anyone in the company used them. But the employees of that same company also used to e.g. put their mugs into the dishwasher / not leave kitchens horrible for the cleaners to deal with.

Whilst I've felt a little awkward when men have been in women's loos for cleaning or whatever, it's never been much more awkward than I feel when other women are in there. So many of us make ourselves ill from holding in wind or poo. Because of the worry about noise or smell. If people could be a little less shitty (no pun intended) about it, it would be wonderful to begin feeling I could properly use the toilet. Not just men make noise and smells.

I have one of these in my house. We manage just fine (even when we have male visitors).

I can attest to this. When I was a teenager, I worked in McDonald's. The ladies loo was always way, way worse than the men's. By a country mile.

Yeah it was awful when I had morning sickness and it was the closest loo.
The others were down a corridor but worth the walk!

Ours at work are unisex. Floor to ceiling door with a sink and mirror in each cubicle. Also sanitary protection and bin in all. I think they're great. Each floor in the building has approx 14 unisex loos.

I occasionally lecture at a university too and have noticed no difference between the unisex loos and the female only ones. I must move in circles of hygienic men. I also was in mixed sex uni halls and house shares when I studied and the boys were probably cleaner than the girls (except in the kitchen to be fair.) I do think if there is a hygiene problem it is behaviour that needs to be addressed, it’s not down to the design of the toilets themselves. There must be plenty of men who hate having to share with the gross unhygienic guys too.

We had a very similar thread the other day which showed a similar divide in views. We have unisex toilets at work. They are always perfectly pleasant because my colleagues are all grown ups who have mastered the art of using the toilet. Other than the office dog obviously. All the men in my life seem to be able to go to the toilet without making any more mess than me.

You have no idea what people think.

I have to share a work WC with men and I hate it. They have little consideration and I am the only one that ever cleans it.

I think if they were cleaned on a regular basis (by a cleaner) then it would be fine.

We have unisex loos at work (university) and it's much better than the old ladies loos because the new ones are floor to ceiling so you don't get the same issues with smell / noise or people trying to talk work while you are peeing!

I think in our place it’s a traffic issue - huge numbers of students and not nearly enough cleaning.

Unisex loos are fine but there should be single sex loos too, so people can choose to use whichever they prefer.