Stop the office AC overload: Study shows women are more productive when it’s warmer

[laylalex 7,284]

So there are three people who work in my business on a day to day basis, and two of us are women. Today the AC is so cold I actually went out and bought myself a sweater so I can make it through the next five hours! My female coworker is wearing fingerless gloves. IT IS 74 DEGREES OUT THERE (my weather app says) and yet it is subarctic in here. Of course our manager, the only man, thinks it's just about perfect inside right now. I can't even.

 

Anyway, I know this article is about 4 months old but I was thinking about it when I walked out to get the sweater. 

 

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Chang and his co-author, Agne Kajackaite, tested verbal and math skills in tests of college students in Berlin. They found that for every one degree increase in Celsius, the number of math questions answered correctly by women went up by 1.76 percent. Put another way: Even within normal indoor temperature variations — increasing the temperature from the 60s to the 70s in the room — female performance on the math tests increased by 15 percent.

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What’s not likely to be the explanation, at least in this case, was clothing. Because the test was run in college students, he said, there weren’t the same kind of sartorial differences between male and female participants. Rather than button-down shirts and pants or sleeveless blouses or dresses, both male and female students dressed in relatively similar ways, he said: “They were all coming in in shorts and a T-shirt."

 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/24/stop-office-ac-overload-study-shows-women-are-more-productive-when-its-warmer/

 

And sort of apropos of nothing, when I searched the site to see if anyone had already posted about this, I found this AMAZING thread that somehow didn't go anywhere in 2012.   Let me if you want to know what it is -- let's just say it isn't necessarily family friendly!!!!  

 

[YecaCruz 379]

BRUH the struggle is real! I've been working at the same place since 2011 and I have to wear sweaters/long sleeves every day. Thermostat opposite of me shows that its about 73-74 degrees but it feels like its 67-68 degrees.

There are days in the summer when it's 90-ish degrees outside and I'm STILL wearing my Columbia fleece jacket. I wore it on the 4th of July. haha so sad!

 

The flip side is when it's -30 in the winters I shamelessly wear long john pants under my work pants. I'd rather be cold and add on the layers than be hot and unable to cool off so at least I have SOME control over that.

 

 

[Dashinka 24,150]

@laylalex you would have loved my office this morning.  It was 84 at 5am and felt like a Russian banya.

[laylalex 7,284]

59 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

@laylalex you would have loved my office this morning.  It was 84 at 5am and felt like a Russian banya.

I love it!!! (I had to look up a banya to confirm my suspicions.)

 

It's insane to have AC on when it's 74. I admit it is now 83 degrees outside and I was looking at the forecast earlier not the actual temperature outside. Please excuse this blonde moment, brought to you by Layla.

[luckytxn 2,264]

A happy boss means happy employees. Just toss the sweater on and move on or find another place to work.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,369]

8 minutes ago, luckytxn said:

A happy boss means happy employees. Just toss the sweater on and move on or find another place to work.

I agree. If your cold put on a sweater.  You cant take off clothes to be cool but you can put them on to be warm

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

3 hours ago, laylalex said:

So there are three people who work in my business on a day to day basis, and two of us are women. Today the AC is so cold I actually went out and bought myself a sweater so I can make it through the next five hours! My female coworker is wearing fingerless gloves. IT IS 74 DEGREES OUT THERE (my weather app says) and yet it is subarctic in here. Of course our manager, the only man, thinks it's just about perfect inside right now. I can't even.

 

Anyway, I know this article is about 4 months old but I was thinking about it when I walked out to get the sweater. 

 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/24/stop-office-ac-overload-study-shows-women-are-more-productive-when-its-warmer/

 

And sort of apropos of nothing, when I searched the site to see if anyone had already posted about this, I found this AMAZING thread that somehow didn't go anywhere in 2012.   Let me if you want to know what it is -- let's just say it isn't necessarily family friendly!!!!  

 

 

[luckytxn 2,264]

27 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

I agree. If your cold put on a sweater.  You cant take off clothes to be cool but you can put them on to be warm

Well for some people the universe revolves around them and all conditions must be set for their comfort with no regards to others. 

[theresaL 408]

Ladies, this is only temporary. Menopause is right around the corner. I guarantee, you will never complain about being cold again. Commenting for a friend.

[laylalex 7,284]

53 minutes ago, luckytxn said:

A happy boss means happy employees. Just toss the sweater on and move on or find another place to work.

Well, he's not really my boss. He's my manager, and my friend (he got me the job) and he's also the ONLY person who works here who thinks it's too cold. We have the upper hand in terms of numbers thinking it's too cold. I also think that happy employees mean a happy boss! All of this will be meaningless soon once fall really kicks into gear anyway. 

49 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

I agree. If your cold put on a sweater.  You cant take off clothes to be cool but you can put them on to be warm

Depends on where you work.

9 minutes ago, theresaL said:

Ladies, this is only temporary. Menopause is right around the corner. I guarantee, you will never complain about being cold again. Commenting for a friend.

Lolololol 

[Boris Farage 353]

Seems to be a fact the fairer sex is always too cold or too hot. And then there is the matter of temperature.

[laylalex 7,284]

43 minutes ago, Boris Farage said:

Seems to be a fact the fairer sex is always too cold or too hot. And then there is the matter of temperature.

There needs to be a "frowny" reaction in addition to the "sad" reaction. The problem, I have found, with men saying things like that often has to do with the man in question, and NOT the woman. A change in approach may regulate "temperature" you know.  

[TBoneTX 44,787]

6 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

You cant take off clothes to be cool

Actually, here is a 3-step, 100%-energy-saving method of air conditioning, see man:

 

1.  Take off all your clothes

2.  Blow on a friend

3.  Think clean thoughts

[Dashinka 24,150]

11 hours ago, laylalex said:

I love it!!! (I had to look up a banya to confirm my suspicions.)

 

It's insane to have AC on when it's 74. I admit it is now 83 degrees outside and I was looking at the forecast earlier not the actual temperature outside. Please excuse this blonde moment, brought to you by Layla.

In our case, it was both men and women complaining about the heat in the office.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Women tend to feel cold, and therefore need to be cuddled or more heavily clothed to survive in comfort.

 

Until such a time as they crawl nekkid under the covers, whereupon they proceed to put off so much body heat as to make their man sweat even if there is a six-inch air gap between them.