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

[Neonred 3,562]

23 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.
 

 

 

Just the opposite in my office.  The women always want it COLD while I am freezing.  Of course I have lived in FL the past 32+ years so I expect it to be nice and comfortably warm.  The menopausal women always want it colder.  Lucky this time of year when it is so hot outside the AC will only take it down to 73 or 74 no matter how low they set it.  Of course I, the boss, have no say in the matter.  And the wife being from Russia wants to feel as if she is in Siberia.

 

Wife is so happy now as we are vacationing in Czech republic, and the weather is cool.

[Dashinka 24,497]

4 minutes ago, Neonred said:

Just the opposite in my office.  The women always want it COLD while I am freezing.  Of course I have lived in FL the past 32+ years so I expect it to be nice and comfortably warm.  The menopausal women always want it colder.  Lucky this time of year when it is so hot outside the AC will only take it down to 73 or 74 no matter how low they set it.  Of course I, the boss, have no say in the matter.  And the wife being from Russia wants to feel as if she is in Siberia.

 

Wife is so happy now as we are vacationing in Czech republic, and the weather is cool.

Interesting, my wife, after living most of her entire life in Siberia wants it warm.  We are eyeing the SW for retirement.

[TBoneTX 45,288]

11 hours ago, Neonred said:

we are vacationing in Czech republic

Czech it out!

On 9/24/2019 at 12:26 AM, TBoneTX said:

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

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[yuna628 9,676]

If you're cold, get a sweater and drink tea. It is better to be cold than dying from sweating while trying to do work. Remember my husband telling me about the American company he once worked for, and how there was no air conditioning or ability to open windows. PCs were overheating. People were passing out on the work floor.

[Dashinka 24,497]

16 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

If you're cold, get a sweater and drink tea. It is better to be cold than dying from sweating while trying to do work. Remember my husband telling me about the American company he once worked for, and how there was no air conditioning or ability to open windows. PCs were overheating. People were passing out on the work floor.

Been in a few factories in China in early September that were absolutely oppressive.  It made me wonder what it is like in July and August.  I completely agree, would rather have it a little cool, than overly hot in the workplace.

[laylalex 7,284]

57 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

If you're cold, get a sweater and drink tea. It is better to be cold than dying from sweating while trying to do work. Remember my husband telling me about the American company he once worked for, and how there was no air conditioning or ability to open windows. PCs were overheating. People were passing out on the work floor.

But when two out of three of you are cold, too cold, so cold you are wearing sweaters in the summer (still very much summer here), why should we have the AC turned up so high? The only one who thinks it's right could easily NOT wear an undershirt under his buttondown, or wear a linen shirt instead. Some customers have also pointed out how cold it gets. 

[yuna628 9,676]

4 minutes ago, laylalex said:

But when two out of three of you are cold, too cold, so cold you are wearing sweaters in the summer (still very much summer here), why should we have the AC turned up so high? The only one who thinks it's right could easily NOT wear an undershirt under his buttondown, or wear a linen shirt instead. Some customers have also pointed out how cold it gets. 

Not wearing an undershirt isn't going to help when it's so hot sweat is soaking your body and BO is everywhere. I can't speak for LA weather, but around these parts the heat is excruciating with high humidity. Places get like an oven very quickly in the summer. My husband's current office, used to be around 85 degrees before they got enough money to fix the thermostat and it pushed higher on days of 100+ heat. Students couldn't concentrate and staff used any excuse they could to move as little as possible. In my sister's office it is so hot it is even impossible in winter time to wear any winter attire. The public toilets are right behind the office wall, and the mix of that stench and the heat permeates the room.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

3 hours ago, yuna628 said:

If you're cold, get a sweater and drink tea. It is better to be cold than dying from sweating while trying to do work. Remember my husband telling me about the American company he once worked for, and how there was no air conditioning or ability to open windows. PCs were overheating. People were passing out on the work floor.

i use to manage a company that packaged liquids. The plant floor would often be in the mid 90s during the summer with people stacking boxes  all day. I use to look out of my office window overlooking the floor, and think how miserable it must be. It was so oppersive I just generally called my assistant to the office when I needed something relayed to the floor

[Steeleballz 7,550]

13 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Czech it out!

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  We might give you one, but first we must get past your use of the majestic plural.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

On 9/24/2019 at 1:18 PM, Neonred said:

Just the opposite in my office.  The women always want it COLD while I am freezing.  Of course I have lived in FL the past 32+ years so I expect it to be nice and comfortably warm.  The menopausal women always want it colder.  Lucky this time of year when it is so hot outside the AC will only take it down to 73 or 74 no matter how low they set it.  Of course I, the boss, have no say in the matter.  And the wife being from Russia wants to feel as if she is in Siberia.

 

Wife is so happy now as we are vacationing in Czech republic, and the weather is cool.

 

  My wife also want's it to feel like back in Russia, but unfortunately she is thinking more of the time she spent in Tashkent growing up. It's usually mid to high 80's in the house when I get home. It's getting to the point where I regret showing her how to adjust the thermostat.

 

[yuna628 9,676]

16 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

i use to manage a company that packaged liquids. The plant floor would often be in the mid 90s during the summer with people stacking boxes  all day. I use to look out of my office window overlooking the floor, and think how miserable it must be. It was so oppersive I just generally called my assistant to the office when I needed something relayed to the floor

I can imagine! I've heard it's really bad at the Amazon plants around these parts.

2 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  My wife also want's it to feel like back in Russia, but unfortunately she is thinking more of the time she spent in Tashkent growing up. It's usually mid to high 80's in the house when I get home. It's getting to the point where I regret showing her how to adjust the thermostat.

 

Good lord, I'd be dead. I like keeping it around 68 summer. 70 in the winter. It's one of the comforts of America, the hubby now can't do without.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

Just now, yuna628 said:

I can imagine! I've heard it's really bad at the Amazon plants around these parts.

Good lord, I'd be dead. I like keeping it around 68 summer. 70 in the winter. It's one of the comforts of America, the hubby now can't do without.

well it wasnt amazon but I heard they are awful to work for. There is a new massive DC opening about 2 miles from the house.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

1 minute ago, yuna628 said:

Good lord, I'd be dead. I like keeping it around 68 summer. 70 in the winter. It's one of the comforts of America, the hubby now can't do without.

 

    I have actually adjusted to it somehow. I used to be soaked with sweat and now I'm not. If I compromise and set it to somewhere around 80, it's usually OK. If I set it lower, my wife just turns it off rventually. She doesn't notice till somewhere in the 90's I'd guess.

 

   It bugs me more in the winter when she sets it to 80. The furnace can't actually get the house that warm so it just runs all day. 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

2 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

    I have actually adjusted to it somehow. I used to be soaked with sweat and now I'm not. If I compromise and set it to somewhere around 80, it's usually OK. If I set it lower, my wife just turns it off rventually. She doesn't notice till somewhere in the 90's I'd guess.

 

   It bugs me more in the winter when she sets it to 80. The furnace can't actually get the house that warm so it just runs all day. 

You let your wife have the pin to the thermostat?? Lawd boy do you let her hold the remote also

[Steeleballz 7,550]

9 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

You let your wife have the pin to the thermostat?? Lawd boy do you let her hold the remote also

 

     Thermostat with a pin?  Well I guess I have some googling to do now. 

 

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