The Influence Of Office Temperature On Work Efficiency

Annie Steinberg usually sits in a desk wearing ski caps, gloves and scarves.

The space heater provided by her company is running alongside.

At the same time, her boss, Bradford Rand, was sitting in his office on the same floor. He kept opening windows to let cold winter air enter his stuffy office.

These are typical office scenes.

It is almost impossible to provide a comfortable office environment for employees because "comfort" has different meanings for different people.

By adding unstable heating and cooling systems to old buildings, there may be several "climate" in one office (or even one room).

But this is an uncomfortable thing.

Research shows that the temperature in the working environment can affect productivity.

Alan Hedge, Professor of design and environmental analysis at Cornell University (Cornell University), has conducted two studies on the impact of temperature on productivity (third studies are ongoing).

Hedge and his team put the monitoring equipment on the employee's desk to observe the keystrokes and mouse operations at different temperatures.

The observation surprised him.

Hedge according to the standards set by the American Society for Heating (Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers), the temperature is set at slightly above 70 degrees Fahrenheit in winter.

These engineers say that 76 degrees Fahrenheit and 72 degrees Fahrenheit are ideal temperatures in summer and winter respectively.

"We think that when you lower the temperature of the staff office, they will work harder and work better," Hedge said.

Our findings are just the opposite.

When the office temperature is cooled from cool to cold, the workload of employees will drop and they will make more mistakes.

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Steinberg does not need scientific research to prove it.

"Wearing gloves is really not an easy task," said the senior marketing director at the Go Green Expo trade show.

Hedge explains that temperature is adaptive.

Therefore, it is an ideal behavior to measure the outdoor temperature a month before and set the temperature regulator accordingly.

Isn't life a great thing to be so relaxed?

As far as Go Green Expo employees are concerned, their office buildings are at the edge of the temperature war, that is, indoor heat comes from heating devices, and controlling temperature is almost impossible.

This is complicated by the fact that the cold air is sent to the outdoor air conditioner through the entire building.

The copying room will be implicated by air conditioners. Employees can almost see the air they breathe when they enter the copying room, although the main floor has ventilation holes.

An employee has covered the vent with plastic bags to minimize the cold air strength.

You may say that men and women are different, yes, Hedge says, that is, muscles are working.

Because men's muscles are more developed than females, all of them feel warmer.

Their clothes also played a role.

Men usually wear suits and sweaters to work, so they only have their faces and neck exposed, while women's clothing often exposes more skin.

Many women choose to wear heavy work clothes on the back of the chair to warm themselves.

This is not enough for Nicole Bradshaw-Jackson, a public liaison staff in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

The climate of Atlanta is warm. She only needs to wear a small amount of clothes on the way to work.

But you probably can't imagine that the outdoor temperature is as high as 75 degrees Fahrenheit, because she keeps wool stockings, a long scarf and a sweater in her desk, and usually wears three things.

In addition, she placed a space heater under his desk, drinking about 5 cups of hot tea throughout the day.

She said, "I have to arm myself to warm up, and when I feel comfortable, I feel sleepy.

Recently, she was pferred to a new Department of the Centers for Disease Control and prevention. She is now puzzling whether to raise the temperature regulator of the building material management because she does not want to cause temperature disputes in the new office.

Bradshaw-Jackson said, "yesterday I felt very cold, but I felt very hot on both sides.

So I put on a thick sweater.

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Before entering the new Department, she was "notorious" in the building's property management department.

She did not want the property management to think she was finding fault, so she would ask about their family status and holiday arrangements.

The temperature dispute in the office is really very troublesome.

Don t Take the Last Donut author Judith Bowman has been asked to mediate a temperature dispute in an office.

A female employee sneak into the thermostat while others are not paying attention, and adjust the temperature to the desired degree.

In order to solve this dispute, Bowman suggested voting.

She said, "if 99% of the people feel comfortable, the minority must obey the majority".

Hedge, a professor at Cornell University, said that technology is becoming more and more developed, and companies are able to treat offices individually, just like cars.

He said that several ventilation outlets could be set up on the ground to allow employees to control the direction of air flow and even the direction of air flow.

Another way is to separate the "bulge zone" from the small room, where the vent is set up, or by means of underground pipe equipment.

In this way, employees can dress according to outdoor weather without considering indoor temperature.