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In France, the law (Art. R. 4228-10 du Code du travail) imposes one WC and one urinal per 20 male workers, and two WC per 20 female workers. So basically, it e
by informatimago 10y ago
In France, the law (Art. R. 4228-10 du Code du travail) imposes one WC and one urinal per 20 male workers, and two WC per 20 female workers. So basically, it expects that up to 1 worker per each 10 workers will be busy with non-job related stuff.
Another datapoint, I heard that an accountant counted that the actual number was 1 for 50.
In any case, when you're alone or a small startup, this doesn't seem much, but when you have 100,000 employees, this means that between 2,000 and 10,000 equivalent employees are all the time in the WC (and being paid for that, basically).
Of course, there are a lot of other overheard that become very significant when you have a big corporation, but that still exist (and that we easily discount) for small startup and individuals.
- saryant 10y agoIn the US, most companies aren't hiring janitors, they outsource it to a facilities management firm or it's handled by building management. I'm also not sure how that's relevant.
- cauterized 10y agoEver thought that maybe that 1:20 or 1:10 isn't about handling steady load but about handling pre-/post-lunch peak loads without half hour lines? (And I've seen the half hour lines, in an office that had two WCs for 100 people. THEN you end up with people spending 10% of their day doing something other than work.)
- brohee 10y agoDo you stop thinking on the loo? I don't. For knowledge workers, that time isn't completely lost...