New toilet design encourages employees to spend less time in the bathroom while at work

[editor]

Capitalism, eh? Fucking cunts.

A new toilet has been designed to encourage employees to spend less time in the bathroom while at work.

The “Standard Toilet”, which comes in a wall-mounted and floor-mounted model, has received backing from the British Toilet Association (BTA).

Established in 1999, the BTA is a not-for-profit members association that works “to promote the highest possible standards of hygiene and provision in all ‘away from home’ toilet facilities across the UK”.


The seat of the Standard Toilet, which was conceived by consulting engineer Mahabir Gill, has been designed to slope at a downwards angle of 13 degrees so that the person who is sitting on it has to use their leg muscles to stay sat firmly in place.

Mr Gill explained on the BTA website that the horizontal seating surface of typical toilet seats “enables a user to sit relatively comfortably on the toilet”, which can result in them spending “longer than necessary sitting on the toilet without short-term discomfort”.

“It is estimated that in the United Kingdom alone, extended employee breaks cost industry and commerce an estimated £4bn per annum,” he stated.

“With the advent of flexible zero-hour contracts, it is easy to see why our Standard Toilet can be an asset to a business.”

New angled toilet designed to reduce time workers spend in the bathroom

 

[Yossarian]

 

[maomao]

I've spent half an hour over a squat toilet playing games on my phone (snake! It was a long time ago) and avoiding work before now. A paltry little slope won't stop me.

 

[Raheem]

Capitalism, eh? Fucking cunts.

Think this is more about journalism than capitalism.

 

[Epona]

Well that is going to be really shitty for anyone with problems in their leg joints

 

[dessiato]

Time to start on leg muscle building exercises.

 

[chilango]

People will just wad up bog roll and shove it under the seat to change the angle.

 

[seeformiles]

My working day used to start with a good 20 min visit while catching up with current events (via the paper) - or sometimes digesting company circulars and meeting minutes too boring to read in less focussed circumstances free from distractions - an “employee attention concentration pod” if you will. Meddle with it at your peril.

 

[Pickman's model]

People will just wad up bog roll and shove it under the seat to change the angle.

Door wedges will go missing

 

[Pickman's model]

My working day used to start with a good 20 min visit while catching up with current events (via the paper)

In the manner of people reading tea leaves I suppose

 

[Proper Tidy]

Big design flaw with this, which is that it makes it more likely men will piss on the seat

 

[Pickman's model]

Big design flaw with this, which is that it makes it more likely men will piss on the seat

It is a crap design

Several years ago I visited ephesus where I saw roman public toilets, which had horizontal seats. This new design therefore flies in the face of at least 2000 years of latrine design. Companies who install this may indeed see employees spend less time in the loo but I doubt the anticipated gains in production will be seen while I am sure they will have increased staff turnover. The sight of this loo will also tell potential employees that the management are a bunch of unmitigated shits

 

[maomao]

Big design flaw with this, which is that it makes it more likely men will piss on the seat

Only if you piss straight down. I think most men piss at an angle and having the seat at an angle closer to perpendicular to the stream of urine means a larger target. Lifting the seat out of the question of course.

 

[Marty1]

The survey concluded that the average time spent on a toilet break is 28 minutes in London, 14 minutes in Leeds and four minutes in Birmingham.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Lifting the seat out of the question of course.

It lifts?

 

[StoneRoad]

Similar to the idea of having to ask for a "comfort break" and being timed on the visit to the facilities. Or playing low quality muzak ...

 

[maomao]

It lifts?

Strictly speaking it is lifted unless you have some super posh toilet.

 

[skyscraper101]

Here's my betting - it'll be one of those things that never takes off. Like those standing up airplane seats on economy planes. Just a concept by someone pushing the economic benefits angle and getting it a heap of press. In reality it would fall short of disability discrimination laws in offices and public spaces - at least in the UK and many other western countries.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Lots of cocaine

 

[maomao]

I reckon I'm single handedly responsible for at least a minute of the London average.

 

[krtek a houby]

Meddling with the jacks. Is nothing sacred anymore?

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Strictly speaking it is lifted unless you have some super posh toilet.

I use it ergatively. or labilely or something like that. You'd know! Like "The chicken hasn't cooked".

 

[Dawn Crescendo]

I left school in 1967 at the age of 15 .. in the next seven years I did several various jobs ranging from working in shops to office work. In all of those jobs the unofficial break time was taken in the loo either sitting or standing outside the cubicles having chat and a smoke. In November 1974 I joined British Rail where I worked for the next 29 years in various roles .. in all my time on good old British Rail and its privatised successor never once did I work in a place where people took an unofficial break in the loo. I left the railway in 2003 on account of medical problems. I was then employed by the local council for a few years, there once again I found that people (including managers) took unofficial breaks in the loo.

 

[maomao]

I use it ergatively. or labilely or something like that. You'd know! Like "The chicken hasn't cooked".

Of course it hasn't. It couldn't reach.

 

[skyscraper101]

I left school in 1967 at the age of 15 .. in the next seven years I did several various jobs ranging working in shops to office work. In all of those jobs the unofficial break time was taken in the loo either sitting or standing outside the cubicles having chat and a smoke. In November 1974 I joined British Rail where I worked for the next 29 years in various roles .. in all my time on good old British Rail and it privatised successor never once did I work in a place where people took an unofficial break in the loo. I left the railway in 2003 on account of medical problems. I was then employed by the local council for a few years, there once again I found that people (including managers) took unofficial breaks in the loo.

So the point to this story is railway loos aren't particularly alluring environments to hang out in and kill some time?

Who'd have thought.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Capitalism, eh? Fucking cunts.



New angled toilet designed to reduce time workers spend in the bathroom

I would take an extra ten minutes and sit on the floor playing with my phone in spite.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

BT used to make us sign out to go the toilet so I would sign out as Johnny Cash, or Elvis, or similar.

 

[MickiQ]

I contracted at one place about 3 years back where the aircon was disabled in the khazi so it was cold in winter and hot in summer.
No one ever said anything but I'm sure it was to discourage folks from taking too long

 

[SpookyFrank]

I would take an extra ten minutes and shit on the floor playing with my phone in spite.

FFY

 

[strung out]

BT used to make us sign out to go the toilet so I would sign out as Johnny Cash, or Elvis, or similar.

Gary Shitter