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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2015, @12:48AM
So, this story has a lot more comments than even your sex with robots nonsense.
Does that mean the posting of this story is BETTER for the community?
Do you believe the content of the comments is irrelevant? More comments == better?
Even when the majority of the comments are either people saying the story is garbage or you defending your submission?
Well hey, "for the good of the community" you could create some sock puppets to submit all the click/flame-bait stories you like to "get the community talking" because more comments ALWAYS == better, right? Right?