Winter Thermostat Wars Are On
Richard A. Moran
Venture partner, author, speaker, advisor, radio personality. Lending perspective, prescriptions and personality to the workplace.
Offices are all either too hot or too cold. It’s a given. Why we can’t we fix this is beyond the scope of my engineering talents but someone should be able to figure it out. Battles over hot and cold can get, well, heated. I know I am in the middle of one, and I'm guessing that I'm not alone.
The thermostat is located in my work area but it controls the entire office. Whatever the temperature, half of the group doesn’t like it. Forget about the interruptions, the poor thermostat is never just adjusted, but always on full throttle hot or cold. Before long everyone is either boiling or freezing and the process starts again.
Many office thermostats are locked, just like they are in every high school, and I am beginning to understand why.
Let’s stop the thermostat wars and try some low-tech solutions: sweaters, fans and windows that open.
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11 年For me, the best one is "the windows that open". We can breathe air from the atmosphere and experience life outside of work. In time: here in S?o Paulo, Brazil, the thermometers registers right now 36°C (97°F), but there is a fresh air blowing through the window.
Windows that open??? Which windows? Most office buildings do not even have windows that are openable and if they do windows are often in the offices of executive members. I have no clue who came up with these worst office designs, they must be punished. Most people in the offices do not see the light and/or get fresh air all day year after year, totally gross and very very wrong. I am this close to staring a grassroots campaign for humane treatment of office employees:) Corporate America, give people access to fresh air and sunlight please!
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11 年A short but very true statement regarding office temperatures. Even in my own office I get complaints that I am sitting in a freezer. It is my office and I do not feel the cold so rarely have heating on. In comes a colleague and I feel like stripping down to nothing. I would be okay but I can see that this would not be a very good solution for others and may lead to some unwelcome headlines.
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11 年Use Nest. End the war.