It used to be that the restroom was a place for absorbing books like Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. According to today's Wall Street Journal, however, it's become the new refuge for workaholics. (Online subscription required.)

Now, it's not uncommon in some offices to find WSJ sections on the floors of bathroom stalls, but I'm not sure how I feel about CEOs taking conference calls from their showers. Will the next-generation organizations be led from the porcelain throne?