Workplace Hospitality Should Extend Inside the Stall

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Workplace hospitality is changing. It is no longer defined only by visible perks, polished common areas, or amenities designed to impress. Increasingly, it is measured by how well a workplace anticipates everyday needs and removes the small points of friction employees have learned to manage on their own. That standard should extend throughout the building, including inside the restroom.

When the Office Falls Short, Employees Fill the Gap

Gensler’s 2026 Global Workplace Survey found that two-thirds of office workers are “hacking” their workspace to compensate for performance gaps.

Employees make their own adjustments for shortcomings related to ergonomics, temperature, visual privacy, noise, and meeting-space availability. These workarounds often happen quietly. The workday continues, while the underlying problem can remain easy for workplace leaders to miss.

The research was based on an anonymous survey of 16,459 full-time office workers across 16 countries. Gensler found that the workplace has not fully kept pace with how employees actually work, even as office attendance and work patterns have stabilized.

This is where workplace hospitality becomes more than a visible perk.

It means recognizing the needs employees have been compensating for on their own and designing the workplace so they no longer have to.

Good workplace hospitality notices the workarounds people have stopped mentioning.

Source: Gensler's 2026 Global Workplace Survey

Hospitality Used to Stop at the Lobby

For years, workplace hospitality was most visible in the lobby, café, lounge, or event calendar.

Companies invested in free snacks, good coffee, comfortable seating, and shared spaces intended to make the workplace more appealing. Those investments matter, but they represent only part of the employee experience.

A workplace is also shaped by less visible moments:

• Whether someone can find a quiet place to focus

• Whether the temperature and furniture support the work being done

• Whether basic supplies are available when they are needed

• Whether employees have to leave a space or ask for help to meet a predictable need

  
  

The best workplace experiences do not simply add amenities.

They remove unnecessary steps.

When the Restroom Falls Short, Employees Fill the Gap

Like a lot of workplaces, Nixon Peabody had the old coin-op machine hanging in the common area, the kinThe same pattern appears inside workplace restrooms.

When period products are not available where they are needed, employees create their own workaround. They bring products from home, carry them discreetly through the workplace, search outside the stall, ask someone else, or leave without what they need.

The individual adapts, while the restroom itself remains unchanged.

That creates a gap between saying period products are available and making them genuinely accessible at the moment of need.

Why In-Stall Placement Matters

UNICORN removes that workaround by putting period products inside every stall.d that's been there for years and nobody thinks twice about. In just a few months, that changed completely. Today, UNICORN is in every stall, bringing privacy and convenience to employees, clients, and guests.

What Workplace Hospitality Looks Like in Practice

Workplace hospitality does not always require a major renovation or a new amenity program. Sometimes it means fixing a predictable point of friction with simple, functional infrastructure.

UNICORN’s system places period products inside every stall, where they are actually needed. Dispensers install in approximately 30 seconds, and patented cartridge refills take approximately 10 seconds, helping facilities teams provide consistent access without piece-by-piece loading.

It is a low-lift improvement for facilities teams and a meaningful change for the people using the restroom.

Sometimes the most thoughtful workplace improvements are the ones employees no longer have to think about.

Stall of Fame: AAA Northeast

AAA Northeast is known for helping people navigate everyday needs with practical, dependable support.

That same mindset now extends to the workplace, with UNICORN period products available inside the stall for employees who need them.

By addressing a basic need directly where it happens, AAA Northeast is making its restrooms more thoughtful, practical, and supportive for employees.