No really, we had such a room built and it is literally never used. Because there is nobody who brings their baby to work (which would be exceptionally impractical anyway - who'd want to be sitting on a phone call beside a crying baby??).

The bad thing is they converted the welfare room for this which was used all the time :(

Breastfeeding rooms are used for expression and I wonder how you'd know if they're used or not.

I was told by building services when I complained about the removal of the wellness/meditation room. They have presence sensors. They also told me that nobody actually asked for it besides the union idiots who are not even in our city. They're just ticking boxes.

I really needed that place because of the move to hotdesking so I'm constantly sitting besides blabby sales people. Formerly we had an IT floor where people knew concentration is sometimes needed. So I'd go there to sit in silence and de-stress for a while.

But I have to say the company is good otherwise, I told them about my difficulty and the H&S people let me work from home much more than others.

I hate the way companies are going back from full remote to hybrid hotdesking though because that is the worst of both worlds.

I can imagine why the breastfeeding rooms were empty if your comments are indicative of your attitude in work.

Nothing about your example is an overreach of unions. In fact, it is a perfect example of the value of organised labour.

In honour of recent comments by dang, I won't be as direct as I'd historically be and instead invite you to think about - in the grand scheme of things - how accessibility, including expressing mothers, may be a societal and absolute good.

As a secondary exercise, maybe it's worth thinking about the ethics of presence sensors.