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Startups struggling to hire and retain women: stocking feminine hygiene supplies in your bathrooms is one small inexpensive change you can make that will make a
by cimmanom 8y ago
Startups struggling to hire and retain women: stocking feminine hygiene supplies in your bathrooms is one small inexpensive change you can make that will make a meaningful difference in quality of life for the women in your office.
It’s a great way to show that you care and are thinking about their needs. And when women visit to interview and make a stop at the restroom, they WILL notice.
If your space has its own bathrooms and you’re already providing free snacks and sodas, there’s no good excuse not to do this.
- jbob2000 8y agoCounter argument: the generic hygiene products that most companies would stock would get rarely used because they aren’t the preferred size/brand or don’t have needed features. And software shops are often in cities where a local drugstore is right around the corner, where people can get their preferred products. Spend the money on cleaning the washroom 3x a day instead. That will make people happy at all times of the month. And provide employees with lockers or a large drawer to store whatever personal products they may need.
- cimmanom 8y agoThey may not be the preferred products, and they may not get used often - but by god, when you need them you need them. When your period starts a day earlier than expected and you have to be in a meeting in two minutes, you’ll take what you can get, and go around the corner to the pharmacy later. The rest of that (cleaning the bathrooms frequently and giving employees private storage space) should be a given anyway and isn’t mutually exclusive with providing hygiene products in the restroom. And the tiny amount of money you’d save by not providing those products isn’t going to go very far towards accomplishing those other goals.
- jbob2000 8y agoFair points. It doesn’t cost much, so why not!