Millennial Workers Want an Office Shower. It’s Not What You Think.

 

When I first saw this, I may have done a major eye roll (“oh those millennials what will they want next?).

  • However, in reading this piece more fully, I’m on board.
  • Also big shout out to Mehrdad Mahdjoubi, CEO and Founder of Orbital Systems.
  • In collaboration with NASA, they have developed a shower that uses only 20% of the water a typical shower uses.
  • Some have called it the Tesla of showers.

The stats below strike me as a little far-fetched – at first glance – but I am seeing thousands of people bike to work each day and I imagine they would want to freshen up when they get there.

  •  21% of job-seeking millennials consider the presence of shower facilities to be a factor in their decision to take a job with a particular company.
  • Quality shower facilities can encourage a cyclist to pedal into work in the morning, or joggers to leave their desk at lunchtimes and take a run.
  • The modern workforce wants the freedom to fit their career around their passions and aspirations – not the other way around.
  • A company benefits from an active and healthy workforce who feel their employer caters to their health and happiness, as well as their professional progression.

Read on below for additional insights from Hubble (a We-Work style company based in the UK).

 

Twice the number of companies on Hubble’s UK rental platform now have shower facilities versus the previous year.

  •  This increase demonstrates the dramatic rise in companies’ equipping their offices to meet workforce demands.
  • Searches for office spaces with shower facilities have tripled.

Tushar Agarwal, CEO of Hubble, explains:

  •  With its current soaring trajectory, by 2018 showers will be even more popular than things we generally see as workplace essentials like meeting rooms.
  • With the increase in popularity of cycling and lunchtime running, it is important to properly cater for these changing trends.
  • Ultimately it makes a statement about your culture and who you are as a company.”

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