Sorry for yet another post on work loos but I'm not sure what to do.
I work for a very large employer. They built new offices in 3 locations over covid and moved us in. 2 are fine, male and female toilets plus at least 3 fully enclosed 'gender neutral' per floor.
The third building was built to order but is leased. All toilets are self contained gender neutrals within a large room.
I think being within a large room rather than opening onto a corridor doesn't meet current specs? I've pointed this out but got nowhere.
The downsides are you have to squeeze past the person coming in the opposite direction, some men don't make much of an effort to move.
The men aren't particularly careful with aim so there's often pee on the seats and so the women nearly always need to clean up some guys pee before we can go to the loo.
They generally smell very strong if you go in straight after a man.
Then there's the potential issues of cameras, anxiety over the door locks (the men just seem to ram them to see if they're open) and more than once men not bothering to close or lock the door.
Its a large building, 7 floors with 400+ per floor. Could it be indirect sex discrimination to not have single sex? I feel its mainly women impacted by this, lots hold on til lunch and go to the cafe.
And on a related note the official guidance for the single sex loos used to be self id then it disappeared a few years ago, I know a few trans women use the ladies, the trans men use the gender neutral. We've asked what the guidance is but only answer is that it's under review.