• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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            “Attention employees! The Wellness Rooms are at capacity! All employees are expected to lower their wellness standards until further notice. End of Message.”

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          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?

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            I’m not saying either would choose to be in there together. But having been a nursing mother, I know there’s no rescheduling the milk when it’s letting down. And I believe Muslim prayers need to be done on schedule. The man would no more choose to have a woman in the same room than she’d choose to have him in there. It’s the corporation I’m faulting, for deciding to make it multipurpose rather than providing separate places. Or, you know, adequate postnatal leave.

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              I see, thanks for clarifying. Adequate postnatal leave is definitely what’s needed, and I mean like 2 years not 3 months. I had to use up all my PTO for each of my kids births because there was no paternity leave. My wife only got a couple months. Fun emailing about work when you’re in the NICU.

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      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.

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        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