Originally Posted by
GeneralAviation
Any company that requires employees of the opposite sex
to share a hotel room is run by clueless, insane fools.
An EU company that implements a policy based on sharing according to gender (being the same or otherwise) risks a discrimination action...
My Vietnamese friends told me they prefer to share rooms because they feel its safer from (1) strangers walking in and (2) ghosts. They never seem to fear the colleagues. In one case, two females I know always get a room each from their company (because of seniority) but always share one room and cancel/leave the other one empty.
And on a company trip... many brought along husbands/wives. But the husbands didn't share with the wives - the wives tended to share rooms as did the husbands. One guy told me "I get to sleep with her enough as it is".