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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, @03:24PM
Owned by Dice, Slashdot is interested in page views for advertising revenue purposes. SN has no such encumbrances. So accusations of click-bait here are empty. Nobody's trying to make a fast buck.
Once in a while, it's fun to have a rousing debate, as nerds, about stupid shit. Shit we all know is goofy and shallow. But as usual as nerds we think about such things on an entirely different level than your average WalMart drone.
But I come here to learn about spheres of knowledge about which I know little. For example, if it weren't for HairyFeet my knowledge of developments with MicroSoft, from an MS perspective, would be greatly reduced. (So I will do what I can to make sure he's not chased from this forum.)
But none of that comes through if there's little discussion. Here, discussion's the thing. Pageviews are only great if you're trying to sell advertising.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday August 05 2015, @09:48PM
But I come here to learn about spheres of knowledge about which I know little. For example, if it weren't for HairyFeet my knowledge of developments with MicroSoft, from an MS perspective, would be greatly reduced.
Just to let you know, it hasn't been increased very much, either. And how did you know that Hairyfeet is a sphere?
**All Hail the Warriors of the Social Justice League! May they prevail over the Anti-social Injustice Warriors!**
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday August 06 2015, @11:18PM
Hell, I occasionally learned something useful from Slashdot's most revered troll, commonly known as Twitter. So I'm with ya on not chasing off anyone if we can avoid it.
I thought this was interesting enough to spend a few minutes on, so what's the harm? If I don't like it, I don't have to open the link to start with. Do some people have a linear brain that can't skip the "boring" stuff??
And I just don't take this sort of story, or the comments, so seriously that it ruins my day. (Tho it did spend all my mod points...) File under trivial controversy, shake my head at some of the pointless arguments, and promptly forget the whole thing.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.