Help global warming - turn the temp up in offices

denice

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I think personal preferences also enter into it and there is the rub.  I seen they mentioned a 75 degree office versus a 70 degree office.  I am a woman and 75 would be too warm for me.
 
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It's usually right around 67 in our building, which is simply too cold for me. Even the guys in our department complain. We all brought heaters in from home and we run them fairly regularly, even during the summer. I live in sweatshirts here at work. Our admin ass't usually wraps herself in a blanket when she sits at her desk. It's quite ridiculous. I think I could live with around 72 or so. 

We all have cubes (no ceilings). Maintenance did install electric registers in our cubes in our department because we kept complaining. But....no ceilings. Which means that the heat just rises up....in to the air....and leaves the cubes. We get nothing. We put plastic ceilings across our cubes (desperate people will do whatever it takes) and they helped so much. My African violets were in heaven. People would come into our cubes and visit, just to get warm again. Alas, Big Charge didn't like the plastic, so we had to take them down. It was really nice while it lasted though.

So now we keep our registers at 85 degrees 24/7. And the heat rises up into the air and goes....somewhere. We don't really care anymore. And the first thing we do when we come into work is turn our heaters on. They run all day. An incredible waste of energy and money.
 

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*reads article while at work.. wearing sweater and space heater on. 85 degrees outside too*

True story.
 

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*reads article while at work.. wearing sweater and space heater on. 85 degrees outside too*

True story.
Same here, minus the space heater
I always carry a sweater or light jacket everywhere I go, even in the summer. I get cold very easily from AC, drafts from air vents,  the temperature at work.
 

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It is like that at church. There are spreads everywhere for the ones who get cold. My friend who I sit with is at the "right age" to be hot all the time. She bought a fan on a string from Wal Mart and wears it around her neck. Sometimes I can feel it so I have to use a spread or sweater. Now I have told my age, right. I am past that "hot stage". :lol3:
 

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*reads article while at work.. wearing sweater and space heater on. 85 degrees outside too*

True story.
Same here, though not lucky enough to have a space heater in here. Except its closer to 100ºF outside. The girl in my office area and I are constantly wearing long sleeves, and I have a blanket in here in addition to my hoodie. Its usually kept around 70 - and air seems to be constantly blowing. Our office is in the middle of 2 AC units, which I think makes it worse. If we turn the AC up to 73 so we can stop chattering, we get complaints from a few other women in the office. One girl on the other side of the building keeps a space heater on constantly when she's here under her desk, summer or not.

Its caused some tension, as we don't see how its fair for us to freeze all day because some people want sub-arctic office and some of us don't and are uncomfortable. We are mostly an office of women - only 2 men that work INSIDE the building. Though the cold ones are of the "hot flash" age, and 2 are a bit larger than the rest of us, which could be why they prefer it colder. One girl told me because her house is set at 70, the office should be at 70. Well, upstairs at my house is 74 and downstairs is 76. Should that mean the office should be 75?

In the winter, I have to have a space heater or I shiver all day because they don't want the heat turned up. Its kind of miserable some days. :(

I read one article the other day about how people who are cold are less productive and focused at work than those who are comfortable. I've been known to go out and sit in my hot as heck car for a little bit so I can warm up.
 
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I guess it depends a lot what you do, for example if you need to constantly get up and walk around 70 might be bit on warm side, but if job consists just quietly sitting at front of screen, then I think something like 75 might be more appropriate, there is no single truth to this.

I have great skill of sweating a lot while feeling cold, happens especially in closed office environment with too many people around me, so if sweating would be measure of too warm, I would consider anything above 50 being too warm...
 
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