If anyone ever suggested i sit in that room I’d walk out the door
…the other door, the one that leaves the building.
This looks like, and “Wellness room” sounds like, a gender neutral term for a lactation room.
The description in that Wikipedia article sounds much nicer and more elaborate than what we actually had at my last office.
Precisely what this is, with the added benefit (to the company) of being used as a prayer room or other various employee needs.
Converting storage to these private/meditation/wellness (corporation dependant branding for them) rooms has been very common.
Imagine the conflict when the woman who needs to pump breast milk and the man who needs to spread his prayer mat and pray meet at the door.
Although I guess it would be easily solved by him putting on a sleep mask. (Earplugs if he finds the squirt squirt of breast milk arousing or distracting.) Or if the entry door is on the East end of the room.
They are typically reserved rooms, so they would just select a different space to book.
Why would the woman want to pump in the room with a co-worker? Don’t know, feels like your trying to imply something about the man here. Or am I missing something?
Although I guess it would be easily solved by him putting on a sleep mask. (Earplugs if he finds the squirt squirt of breast milk arousing or distracting.) Or if the entry door is on the East end of the room.
I will pay you 10 dollars to delete this sentence and never say it again
Those do usually need a fridge and sink though. Not sure if it’s a code requirement, but all the ones I’ve seen had that.
Might be why the call it a ‘wellness room’, instead of a mothers room; doesn’t meet the legal requirements.
Maybe it varies state by state. This is what I found when looking for federal requirements:
a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public, which may be used by an employee to express milk
To be fair, this is the perfect room for Eustace from Courage the Cowardly Dog. It’s just missing a TV and a newspaper.
When what you really need to relax is the comfort of white noise from the air ducts in the walls, florescent lighting and a sense that not only does time not pass, but it doesn’t even exist. Enjoy your mental health liminal space, employees.
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