New Delhi: One can schedule a meeting room in advance in terms of availability, but visits to the bathroom? After coming under fire for having unrealistic work culture for its employees, e-commerce giant Amazon is now faced with rather embarrassing complaints of not having enough toilets for its male workers.
Washington State Department of Labor & Industries has revealed that it received the most consistent formal complaint from Amazonians about insufficient bathrooms to accommodate all the male employees.
With a typical gender unequal workforce, there are more males than females who work at Amazon. One of the Amazon buildings- Blackfoot- houses about 150 men on a single floor with only four toilets, GeekWire reports.
Following the complaints, Amazon did agree to build additional restrooms on every floor. However, male Amazonians have revealed that the situation has not changed much since the last year and they still have to wait in long lines to use the toilets.
The problem also seemed to depend upon which floor you work on and how many male workers sit there. For example, in 2013, if you were a female worker on the 9th floor, you would be surrounded by 60 men and 2 other women workers, making the bathroom ratio at one female worker for every women’s bathroom stall as compared to about 15 men per men’s bathroom fixture.
Although Amazon’s total fixtures in a building are within the L&I rules, but the sheer density of its male worker population makes the problem harder to deal with.
An anonymous former employee once revealed how he had to visit several floors before finding an available stall and if he were lucky, a moment to himself. With the obsession and work pressure, employees, especially engineers, often took their laptops inside to sit on the toilet and write code.
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