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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Palo Alto businesses must supply showers
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Date: Wed, 24-Aug-83 02:04:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 24 02:04:58 1983
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Heard over my car radio:  in Palo Alto, California, there is an
ordinance in effect stating that all businesses occupying buildings
totaling 50,000 square feet or more of floor space must provide showers
for the benefits of their employees.  The city government is so happy
with the results that they're going to lower the exemption to 10,000
square feet, thus including most reasonably sized businesses in the
program.

The justification is that commuters will be more likely to use muscle
power (jogging and bicycling) to go to work if there are showers
available when they get there.

Of course, the business derives no income at all from the massive
outlay of capital necessary to build showers.  With this sort of
expensive government-mandated foolishness, is it any wonder that
Silicon Valley is falling behind Japan Inc.?

  -- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)  [UUCP]
                       (andrew.tektronix@rand-relay)     [ARPA]