@SpindleInTheWind no worries my post was a little cryptic.
Its her CEO, then her, as Number 2, in the chain of command. She is going to be on
the second
highest salary /
highest bonus /
highest share plan/ highest pension plan /
highest level of allowable business expenses /
Etc
and if she is not then she is stupid and would not be very good at her job. Some of the payment is performance related and as an overall saving on "Other Staff costs" there is a management gain when compaired against a similar company who pay to accomadated their staff properly. That's a nice perk for her CV.
Room sharing as a "staff exercise" is designed to break down the barrier between work time and personal time.
Look at all the posters who think that the OP should pay from her wages, a business expenses which is incurred on behalf of her employer.
=》 That she should pay her employer to work.
As Number 2 in the organisation, she decided to authorise a work event. It is on her, she could have said "no that staff event is not happening that way" instead she signs off on it as the staff training policy.
It halved the accommodation bill for any off-site staff training and will be sold as a perk, HR will have a blurb about investing in "people". In reality the translation is that staff should be "at work" while in their hotel rooms doing "team building" in their respectable work appropiate nightwear.
So the staff work 24hrs work for 7.5hrs pay. But part of her remuneration has built in element of out of hours work, and staff management, she is being paid to attend as part of her job. The other lower grades ( eg the junior employee (JE) ) are not sharing their personal time and sleeping space by choice, it's a work obligation.
She has decided that she will not follow the staff policy that she approved.
She goes to the hotel and gets 2 keys.
•One for her private, against company policy, living space.
•One for the shared company approved living space.
She goes and unpacks her personal items and then leaves her room with a suitcase and a number of items she packed specifically for placement into the shared room. That is pre-planed dishonesty.
She will use her key to enter that shared room at will. Her JE has no control over that and JE first lesson is on "MEta building" is that JE can't put the security chain on the door, even before JE goes to sleep.
She pops in to rearranged the props she placed in the room to create an illusion that she was "living" in it. The JE is not stupid JE will be aware that the 2nd in control of the company, who approved the team building exercise of sharing a room^, is not sleeping or washing in the room. Yet she is entering the room outside of work hours.
So either
•she is sleeping with someone she "should not" be sleeping with or
•she is sleeping somewhere she should not be sleeping.
Neither of which should ever be the problem of the JE. And this could be avoided by her telling the JE that she booked her own room, and would team build at breakfast or dinner.
But the JE is not in good position to object to JE employer's dishonesty because if the JE did, the JE would have to complain directly to the CEO and risk JE's job.
The breach of the policy and process says that there is one rule for the junior staff and different unwritten one for management.