This sounds familiar af... Pensacola?

As someone mentioned, gyms. I biked to work at one of my previous places, and if I wanted to shower, I'd head to the on campus gym. That gym had stalls, so theoretically ou could talk in the shower, though I never did.

Could be shower stalls. My job has showers, we have a gym on-site.

The building I worked at in the Chicago loop had showers for bike commuters. Might be a big city thing.

Many white collar offices have gyms.

Office blocks that have gyms.

The office where I work in central London, UK has bike parking for 300 and only eight vehicle parking spaces. We also have a fitness suite. There's two (male and female) locker rooms with showers, towels provided, a drying room.

At least one of the green building standards doesn't give you the top rating unless you have provision for active travel, institutional investors won't buy your shiny new building unless it's rated "Excellent" or "Platinum", tenants are looking for added extras which encourage their staff to come to the office rather than WFH.

And Westminster Council charges business rates (property tax) on parking spaces.

Used to work at a tire factory and we got paid $1.50 a shift on shower time. I absolutely needed it with how filthy i would get each shift

Manufacturing plants? Usually if there's a changing room there's showers

Back when I was young, I had a job building, and installing, custom stereos for cars. The place I worked at also did a lot of modifications, one of the most popular things we did was lift trucks, add huge wheels, move exhaust to end above the backs of the cabs, etc. People who had trucks like that, just like the people with the stereos you could hear 5 miles away, absolutely did concern themselves with the way they were perceived, having that tricked out truck. They also rarely used them for work, or took them off road. They liked to cruise them down the night life areas, and show off. They would talk about how excited they were to do this. This was the same with people who tricked their cars out like something from TFATF movies. They never raced, they just showed off.

They’re probably not thinking about it as such, but rather it’s an atavistic dominance display, like a gorilla beating its chest, coming directly from the hindbrain.

No! Cause that bitch got home after her bike ride and drove that truck 4x more than her commute would've been. I work at a place that smells pretty bad due to the chemicals needed for the job. A LOT of people have "beaters" they use for work so their good cars won't smell bad. This saves them enough money to afford ridiculous cars and trucks for their "normal life". There's a guy that drives an old geo metro for work. Awesome! Those get great gas mileage and it's a 30 year old car, good on you man! "Yeah I just don't want my ZL1 Camaro to smell like this place" well, fuck.