Do you need a refreshing odour-killing shower right now? Are you worried that you will arrive at the dressing room and find all shower compartments taken, having to awkwardly wait while your co-workers walk around in undergarments?

A scientific study from the University of Los Angeles has found out that there is a strong inverse correlation between shower waiting time and employee happiness. In some of the studies that were conducted, an improvement of 400% in productivity was verified once a portable shower compartment was placed in the test subject’s office. In another case, a 30 year-old male employee decided that waiting in line while his co-workers shower was just too absurd and quit the study.

As Indico 2.2, which will include a brand new Room Booking interface, approaches its release date, we have decided its technology is now ready for some battle-testing. So, we got the whole team together for an afternoon hackathon at the dressing room in bldg. 28 and came up with a new Open Source Indico plugin that implements a full-fledged Shower Booking System based on the new Room Booking module. This is the same strategy we’ve chosen to implement the new version of the Burotel desk booking system.

The CERN Showers service is the result of this team effort. Based on innovative CERN-developed RoomSearchPlusSquaredRoot™️ technology, this innovative platform will allow you to carefully schedule your personal hygiene thus increasing your productivity and overall happiness.

Book your refreshing shower now!

For the technically inclined

The service’s infrastructure is based on CERN’s own PaaS hosting service, based on OpenShift. In order to cope with demand during high attendance hours, an autoscaling solution was put in place, which will increase the service’s capacity whenever needed. In a coming version, we expect to be able to use giant 3D printers to dynamically deploy (physical) shower containers at the Globe’s parking lot.