This Startup Designs A Sloping Toilet To Help Employers Reduce Employees' Toilet Breaks

StandardToilet, a startup in the UK, designs a toilet that is made to make sitting on it uncomfortable by a slope of 13 degrees. It is reportedly unbearable for anyone who sits on it for more than five minutes to reduce the toilet breaks.

What it aims at is to make the experience so intolerable that no one wants to spend too much time in the toilet. Without the excuse of sitting in there to check their social media feeds, workers will have no choice left but to return to the desk and resume the work. This also helps free up bathroom stalls for someone who really needs it.

The toilet has faced lots of negative comments. A user of Twitter suggested the company behind it must be destroyed. Others made sarcastic comments about the design and the intention behind it.

A toilet like that costs somewhere between Rs. 14,000 to Rs. 4,600. StandardToilet is discussing the distribution of these special toilets with motorway service stations and local councils.

Mahabir Gill, the founder of the company does not even bother to hide the real intention of the toilet, which is to benefit the employers, not the employees.

Gill has the inspiration for this kind of toilet from some annoyances he faced. He had spent over four decades as a consulting engineer and sometimes he discovered that employees slept in the toilet. The long queues to use the toilet are another reason.

The product is just the next step in helping employers tackling something they have been annoyed by for years, the toilet breaks. According to the Daily Record, a call center in Lanarkshire, Scotland has asked its staff to sign a contract that requires them to register online their toilet breaks, which cannot exceed one percent of their total working time.