Businessmen live like this and think it’s normal.

I remember this scene from Severance.

This is some real life Severance shit.

I must be a robot then because that looks pretty nice. Having a room with a comfortable chair I can sit in by myself for like 20 minutes and not be disturbed would be great. I used to do desktop support at a big hospital and I had a key to an empty suite on one floor that had several sparsely furnished rooms like this that we stored equipment in. When I needed to concentrate on something I would go sit in there with my laptop and work in the quiet. It was wonderful.

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When what you really need to relax is the comfort of white noise from the air ducts in the walls, florescent lighting and a sense that not only does time not pass, but it doesn’t even exist. Enjoy your mental health liminal space, employees.

When you feel well, go there.

When I worked for the NHS the building had one of these. We called it a respite room to calm down, I think many folks used it to have a cry and get on with work.

some box checker tiked a box for this.

fuck you slaves

To be fair, this is the perfect room for Eustace from Courage the Cowardly Dog. It’s just missing a TV and a newspaper.

I am an engineer that does power design for commercial spaces. These “wellness” rooms show up a lot. They are there simply so your corporate overlords can tick a little box under “workplace atmosphere” and add it to the list of bullshit features on their website no employee ever actually uses. It’s very similar to “mother’s rooms”, only those can be considered code compliant based on your location. Sometimes they are also called “phone rooms.”

I think architects upsell them into designs to boost their self esteem.

It’s a lot like when old apartment buildings gut a storage room, put a few pieces of shitty gym equipment in it, and then add “on site fitness center” to the website, and also tack a small monthly fee on your rent.

If I had a dollar for every existing office space I’ve surveyed that ended up just piling office supplies in them, or found them covered in 3 inches of dust… I’d probably have like $100. Not a ton, but enough to definitely make them seem ridiculous.

That’s where your wellness goes to die I believe

straight out of The Stanley Parable

My former employer had a relaxation room that looked like this.
It was sound-proof and had a massage chair in it.

The door to the room was within direct line of sight of the boss’s desk.
I tried going in there once, but the boss called me over and gave me more work.

By Terraria rules, that’s a house fit for a princess