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Squat toilets in Australian Taxation Office's Box Hill office cater to diverse workforce

Julian Kennedy | Whitehorse Leader | 9 August 2016

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/east/squat-toilets-in-australian-taxation-offices-box-hill-office-cater-to-diverse-workforce/news-story/fa3035d23581f65f79510e5c45899f05?nk=5210ea90b0ec71d2453bb016f53292c9-1471144245

Extract: SITTING down on the loo is optional for Box Hill's tax officials, whose plush new digs include squat toilets favoured in parts of Asia and Europe.

The move is tipped to be repeated in the future, as employers cater to an increasingly diverse workforce not always familiar with the traditional western toilet.

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Institutions such as universities with large numbers of overseas students have been grappling with the problem for years.

Macquarie University in Sydney resorted to toilet lessons, given via a poster on the back of cubicle doors, instructing students not to stand on the toilet seats. The poster included a person standing on the toilet seat and squatting over the bowl with a line through it.


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Australian Services Union taxation branch secretary Jeff Lapidos said the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) resorted to toilet lessons on cubicle doors at its Canberra head office after the same problem emerged about three years ago.

"What they would do is put their feet on either side of the toilet seat and quite often miss," he said.

"It wasn't good for other staff who came along afterwards and would have to complain repeatedly about the state of the toilets."

Mr Lapidos said the issue had to be "delicately" broached because no one knew who was responsible, although he acknowledged the ATO had a large number of staff from South-East Asia and the subcontinent.

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