Professor asks male and female coworkers to share a bed on research trip to NYC, claim to have no other option: 'She was creating a big fuss about it'

a man and a woman share a couch in a fancy hotel room

Sharing a hotel room with anyone is an intimate experience, let alone your coworker.

There are certain decencies we expect when we're at work. Maybe there are certain boundaries that we don't feel we should have to cross. After all, it is your work life and not your personal life. There are a few jobs that require you to cohabitate with your coworkers, but you usually have knowledge of that going in. If you're not the type of person who wants to do that, then you're probably not going to sign up for that kind of job. But what if your regular job springs that on you?

Work trips are common occurrences in adult life, and we all have our own ways of dealing with them. You generally have to go with the flow of what your company wants and can afford, but there are certain baselines that you probably expect. One of them is having your own room. Hotel rooms are expensive, but sharing them can become a huge HR nightmare quickly. But that didn't stop one employer from testing the limits.

At university research programs, funding can often be in short supply. That was the case in this cohort, where a group of researchers was planning a work trip to New York City. But one pretty big snag came up when the professor in charge asked two coworkers of the opposite gender to share a room together. Read on for the full story and see what you think.
Research trip coming up have to share a bed with a female co worker...

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