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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?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday August 05 2015, @03:11PM
There are occasionally comments like this, which makes me think that what those guys are looking for is really something like RSS, or even like Trove or Flipbook, where others curate articles for you. Soylent and Slashdot before it have always been about the discussion.
Personally I really hope people with as wide a readership as Soylentils must have would submit stories. I would love to hear about things I haven't heard about, but should, especially things that fall outside my own online habit trail. I can and probably should submit more stuff from White African [whiteafrican.com], and milieux that SN are less likely to travel. I would love to hear about how techies in the middle of the Arab Spring are getting around Internet restrictions, but my Arabic is rudimentary at best.
Washington DC delenda est.