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I've worked in an office with a very nice (clean, private, towels and soap dispensers provided) shower. Actually two (in separate rooms). And taken showers in them. It definitely was not gross, nor do I think anyone thought it weird, nor was I the only person who used them.

After a bicycle commute to work though, not randomly during the day.

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Taking a wild guess, was this at Fog Creek / Stack Overflow?

Nope, Bay Area not NYC.

That last 3 companies I've worked for have had this. 2 FAANGs and 1 mid size, household name, tech company.

Depends. In skyscrapers with multifloor offices, sure. Regular small-ish offices, the showers would be too proximal for comfort.

Still going to disagree... these are effectively equivalent to the bathrooms you would see in the average house. Designed for purpose of course (e.g. no tub, and a rack of rolled towels instead of a place to hang them).

If they were communal ones like you'd see in many gyms I'd see your point. Or if they weren't very well cleaned. But this was just... convenient and nice. Apart from enabling more active transport to work, I don't think anyone thought twice about them.

The office was technically multifloor, 2. Probably a few hundred people in the office on an average day (no clients, just employees). Solely in use by the company I was working for.

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