Post by irishbride2 on Nov 17, 2015 22:49:07 GMT -5
Yes but I work for a small non profit school. Its the norm (IME) in that world. None of our trips are fully required so you can either not go or pay for your own room (in my case, not yours).
Post by wesleycrusher4ever on Nov 18, 2015 4:46:19 GMT -5
I work for a county agency. We don't share, but we also don't pick our own hotel. I worked for a nearby county in the past and we did have to share if going with another co worker (same sex), but we could pick our own hotels (which I liked so I could stay at Marriott for the points). I have to travel to trainings about 3x a year, so it's not bad either way.
A previous employer made us share rooms and refused to pay for a married couple to have their own room since there were two males and two females traveling. It wasn't like we were staying in high dollar places. The married couple ended up paying for their own room by the end of the week.
Absolutely not with current employer. We each get our own rooms/suites no questions asked. It is glorious as we stay in really nice resorts.
Post by keweenawlove on Nov 18, 2015 17:21:04 GMT -5
I'm in academics and in my lab, you're supposed to with a same-sex person if one's going. Pretty standard at the grad student/post doc level.
We're trying to figure out a way around it for our spring conference in Disney World. The only other woman going has 3 little kids and wants to make the week a family vacation. I love her but not rooming with 6 and 20 month olds!
Post by JayhawkGirl on Nov 19, 2015 1:03:43 GMT -5
My old company moved to requiring room share as we grew (and were plenty profitable). It was ridiculous. They did finally say you could get your own room and pay them the delta, which was a paperwork headache. I once got chased down to reimburse my half since I stayed solo when I had comped nights from the hotel from planning the event.
I would frequently be the only woman on our trips so it rarely affected me, but I would not share. It's not professional, everyone needs their own space to work, sleep, not sleep, put their feet up, call their families, etc.
Post by irishbride2 on Nov 19, 2015 1:58:36 GMT -5
I will say, for me, a huge difference as well is that when we do travel for work (Chaperoning school trips or going to conferences) we are rarely in our rooms anyway. I think if I had down time, sharing a room would be terrible. But as it is, I literally crawl into bed and pass out lol.
My company is awesome in many ways, but this is not one of them. It's not a rule, but very strongly encouraged for people to share rooms (but no bed sharing and no men and women together). I despise it. Most of my colleagues genuinely don't mind or actually prefer to share a room. I've done it a few times but just can't do it anymore and don't plan to continue sharing. If it means I travel a little less bc of cost, so be it. I need my space.
My brain keeps going back to one thought on this topic - how does this not end up leading to all kinds of potential harassment-type lawsuits... Surely, it's best for a company to ensure each person gets private space of their own...