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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of open offices these days (yes, nicer ones) have booths and flexible seating so that private calls are a non issue because they allow for conversational privacy either via enclosure, sound proofing, or remoteness.

Feminine supplies: purse or bathroom stash. Advocate for supplying them IN the bathrooms. Most workplaces are not gonna fight this.

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My very nice open office at a Fortune 500 had lots of small conference rooms for private calls. They were made of glass and you could hear everything the person one booth over was saying.

I don't care about tampons, it's easy to slip one in your pocket or just carry a purse to the bathroom. But having a serious medical issue working in that office was horrible -- no matter what I did to try and maintain privacy, everyone knew my business. It made it harder to focus on work, which I wanted to do because it took my focus away from my medical issues. But working in a glass cage is distracting under the best circumstances, and it's worse when you are dealing with highly personal and sensitive challenges.[/quote]

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