Rihga Royal Hotel Tokyo Adopts OiTr, Stocking Free Sanitary Products in Staff RestroomsA · FULL TRANSLATION
- Rihga Royal Hotel Tokyo installs the OiTr sanitary-product service
- Free sanitary products stocked in women's staff restroom stalls
- OiTr is Japan's first free sanitary-product service of its kind
- Aims to build a workplace where staff can work with peace of mind
Putting sanitary products in staff restrooms—a seemingly small move—touches a workplace issue being redefined: menstruation should not be a "personal hassle" employees quietly manage, but a working condition employers can proactively own.
Commercially, this is a soft investment for the talent-competition era. As firms compete on benefit details, a "women-friendly workplace" can no longer be a slogan; it must land as concrete facilities. OiTr brings a free sanitary-product service—previously deployed mostly in public facilities—inside the company, giving employers a ready-made ESG and employee-care solution.
Worth pondering for Taiwanese firms: "period poverty" and workplace gender-friendliness are cross-regional public issues. As Japan's hotel industry starts treating such facilities as basic equipment, should Taiwan's service sector and offices upgrade them from "thoughtful extra" to "environmental standard"?
OiTr Co., Ltd. (HQ: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo), which operates "OiTr," Japan's first service that stocks and freely provides sanitary products in women's restroom stalls across commercial facilities, transport, public buildings, offices and schools nationwide, announced it has completed an installation at the Rihga Royal Hotel Tokyo (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo).
The installation aims to build a workplace where staff can work with peace of mind, stocking sanitary products in the women's staff restroom stalls for employees to use free of charge when needed.
As awareness of workplace gender-friendliness and employee care rises, the practice of treating sanitary products as basic workplace facilities is spreading. OiTr aims to help employers improve staff welfare by bringing inside companies a free sanitary-product service previously deployed mainly in public spaces, while addressing social issues such as "period poverty."