Workplace Bathrooms Are Beehives of Activity

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — If you thought your workplace bathroom was being used only for what it was designed for, you’d be wrong, according to a new survey by SCA, a Swedish global hygiene company.

The company’s “Hygiene Matters” survey asked 13,000 people from 13 countries, including 1,058 people from the U.S., about their bathroom habits at work.

Here are the results:

• 25 percent of Americans head to the stalls to text, while a slightly lower number, 23 percent, go to make a phone call.
• Five percent visit the bathroom to smoke, while another five percent go there with the intention of napping.
• Seven percent manage to exercise in the restroom.
• Eight percent admit they head to the restroom to eat.
• 10 percent of respondents visit the company restroom to cry. Broken down by gender, 14 percent of women and six percent of men admitted doing so.
• 23 percent of the women surveyed say they go to the workplace restroom to “deal with the frustration of everyday work life,” compared to 17 percent of men.
• 21 percent of guys use “the space to spend a moment alone or get space from colleagues,” compared to 18 percent of the women.
• 10 percent of Americans only “sometimes” wash their hands after taking care of business. One percent says they never do. More than 40 percent of the U.S. respondents also say they don’t clean their hands at all after getting to work.
• 87 percent of Americans expressed general satisfaction with workplace washrooms, with 13 percent claiming they’d rather use their employer’s bathroom than the one they have at home. According to the survey, folks in China, Italy, and Russia are the least thrilled with their bathroom conditions at work.

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