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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 05 2015, @12:18PM   Printer-friendly

Temperatures are set based on formulas that aimed to optimize employees' thermal comfort, a neutral condition of the body when it doesn't have to shiver to produce heat because it's too cold or sweat because it's too hot. It's based on four environmental factors: air temperature, radiant temperature, air velocity and humidity. And two personal factors: clothing and metabolic rate, the amount of energy required by the body to function.

The problem, according to a study in Nature Climate Change on Monday, is that metabolic rates can vary widely across humans based on a number of factors -- size, weight, age, fitness level and the type of work being done -- and today's standards are based on the assumption that every worker is, you guessed it, a man.

Or if you want to be really specific, a 40-year-old, 154-pound man.
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Kingma and van Marken Lictenbelt's work builds on research out of Japan which found that the neutral temperature for Japanese women was 77.36 degrees (Fahrenheit) while it was 71.78 for European and North American males.

5.58 degrees is a significant difference. Is it better for half the people in the office to be sweaty than half the people in the office to be chilly?


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Kilo110 on Wednesday August 05 2015, @12:33PM

    by Kilo110 (2853) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 05 2015, @12:33PM (#218461)

    Wearing more layers wouldn't let them show off their goods. So that won't do. Better to trip the breakers and rail against oppression via automated climate control

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:20PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:20PM (#218483)

    Clearly you have not been introduced to the wonders of spandex.

    Its way funnier when they plug heaters into the UPS and trip that. Shutting off the coffee maker circuit is one thing, but tripping the NAS, that is Fing hilarious. Been there seen that.

    Another good related laugh is team building exercises where people don't seem to realize that bringing in multiple pancake griddles to make the whole department breakfast is going to take more amps than your average low current extension cord can handle. Luckily that fire didn't trip the halon release.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:27PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:27PM (#218488)

      who is "they" that had physical access to a UPS that the NAS was plugged into? one hopes the person touching the UPS, and the person responsible for the UPS were both fired.

      • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday August 05 2015, @03:10PM

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 05 2015, @03:10PM (#218572)

        So you take them on a tour of the facility and walk into the room full of batteries and say there's the UPS, and they're like, "which box is the UPS" and thats when you know they're in over their head.

        Something that runs rows of racks of three phase NAS off a room full of batteries bigger than my living room...

        I forget exactly how they killed the NAS but you are more or less correct that it was silly electrician wiring combined with architects thinking nobody would ever plug anything bigger than a laptop charger into that outlet...

      • (Score: 3, Touché) by The Archon V2.0 on Wednesday August 05 2015, @04:37PM

        by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @04:37PM (#218631)

        > who is "they" that had physical access to a UPS that the NAS was plugged into? one hopes the person touching the UPS, and the person responsible for the UPS were both fired.

        I'm not the original poster, but in my personal case where Bad Stuff was plugged into the server UPS, the "they" was one of the company owners (and self-styled CIO) and no, he wasn't fired. Half the IT department was later fired, though, and then the rest quit.

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by dyingtolive on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:45PM

      by dyingtolive (952) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:45PM (#218501)

      I 'inherited' a 'server room' used by the support folks for replicating client issues. It was basically a retrofitted office with its own industrial AC unit installed in it. Also in it were a bunch of powered down servers. Absent documentation, I plugged everything in and powered up. What I didn't know was that the outlets were all still just 20A.

      When we lost power, the electrician told me that apparently I managed to burn through an inch or two of copper wire. He was surprised it didn't start a fire. Jokes about Milton from Office Space followed for some time.

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    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:43PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:43PM (#218550) Journal

      Jeez, VLM, have you ever considered penning a memoir: "Stupid Shit Non-Techs Do"?

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by zocalo on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:31PM

    by zocalo (302) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:31PM (#218492)
    So complain about how hot it is, strip down to shorts and T-shirt, and then see how much gagging at your pale hairy legs they can take before they get the message. After all, women have fought for years for equal rights, and that's a two way street is it not?
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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday August 05 2015, @03:00PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @03:00PM (#218564) Journal

      Yes, that looks something like this [youtube.com].

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