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15 Blowing Hot and Cold


WHEN TEMPERATURES DIP, the fight for control of the office thermostat begins. The cold facts on a hot workplace topic:


by Steve Brearton


1 in 10 Number of employees in a 2015


poll conducted by CareerBuilder who said they had fought with a coworker over the temperature at work


19 Percentage of office workers


in a 2010 CareerBuilder survey who believe their bosses recently turned the heat down to save the company money. Only 54% of employees said the temperature at their workplace was “just right”


20 to 23.5 Range in winter office tempera-


tures recommended by the Standards Council of Canada. The US-based American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers says that range should satisfy about 80% of workers


79 Percentage of US employees


who said they work from home during “severe snow or ice storms,” according to a 2015 study from West Corp. Seven in 10 housebound workers said they were just as productive at home


1,000 Annual dollar savings in improved


productivity per worker by automating office air quality, temperature and lighting tailored to workers in an open-air Montreal office, according to a 2017 Concordia University study


1960s Decade that studies on male


Preferred temperature in Celsius for Facebook offices as decreed by founder Mark Zuckerberg and reported by former COO Sheryl Sandberg in her 2013 book Lean In. The optimal office temperature for productivity is said to be around 22 C


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metabolic rates established standard temperatures for today’s offices. Those studies may have overestimated the “resting heat production of women” by 35%


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