How should facilities teams manage free period products at work?

Ideally, the same way they manage the other essentials already in the restroom:

as part of the existing service routine.

A workplace period product program shouldn’t require facilities teams to create a completely separate process just to keep pads and tampons available.

A few things can make a big difference:

• Choose a consistent placement standard. Employees shouldn’t have to figure out where products are located from restroom to restroom.

• Make refilling simple. The fewer steps, keys, moving parts, and individual products staff have to handle, the easier the system is to maintain.

• Use enough capacity. Higher-capacity dispensers can reduce how frequently teams need to check and replenish product.

• Build refills into the existing restroom route. Period products should be serviced alongside toilet paper, soap, and other restroom essentials.

• Plan inventory across the building or portfolio. Standardized products and dispensers make ordering, storage, and restocking much easier.

• Pay attention to accessibility. Products should be available where someone can actually reach and use them, including within accessible stalls.

  
  

The goal shouldn’t be to give facilities teams another program to manage.

It should be to make period products a normal part of restroom operations.

That’s a big part of how we designed UNICORN: simple installation, cartridge-based refills, and an in-stall system built to fit into the restroom routine that already exists.

Because the easier a system is to maintain, the more reliably the product will be there when someone needs it.