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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The suck for everyone but I think they are worse for women.

Though I don't see them as worse because of tampons or feminine products. No matter what, as a woman you are going to have to bring feminine products to work and carry them to the bathroom. That's just life. I don's see the difference between keeping them in a desk drawer in an office versus at a desk.

But as a woman who has been pregnant and postpartum in an open concept office, it is the worst. When you are pregnant, everyone knows how often you are going to the bathroom, everyone knows if you have gas. Early in your pregnancy or during IVF treatments, you may have calls to doctors offices that you'd like to be private and it's harder to do that in an open concept office.

After childbirth, open concept offices are aggressively inconvenient for postpartum and nursing moms. Some cubicles have high enough walls that you can pump in them, but not all. And pumps make noise that might disturb others. Alternatively there can be a nursing room, but in open concept offices, these rooms tend to be harder to access because of the preference for everything to be open with sightline -- in my office it was two floors away tucked behind the rooms that held our servers.

Also, open concept sucks when you are going through any kind of medical issues, whether it's a kidney stone or pregnancy or postpartum depression (I've had all three!). Open concept means that if you randomly feel emotional during hormonal shifts during the day, people can see you crying at your desk. It means if you are in physical discomfort or pain, everyone can see it. It means if you want to call a loved one to tell them you are having a tough day, you need to find a conference room to do so or everyone can hear. It is humiliating for people going through physical challenges.

We should all opposed open concept offices but I think women have good reasons to hate them more.[/quote]

Good lord, pull yourself together. Everyone farts.  Older men pee often, physical pain can happen to anyone. And crying on the phone in the office? My eyes are rolling around in my head so hard they may get stuck.

Pregnancy is just not something that happens everyday day for the entirety of a woman’s career and office space shouldn’t be designed around it. Stop making people hate working with childbearing aged women, you are insufferable. [/quote]

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