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There are a lot of things to complain about in the workplace, and believe me, I complain about enough of them. Lack of vacation days, an overbearing boss, and the perpetual absence of break room donuts all suck, but my one biggest complaint is the one that affects me every moment I’m in the office. From the moment I walk in until the moment I pack my bag and escape, this annoyance plagues me every second. It’s not my office mate’s bad perfume or having to use a restroom on another floor; no, it’s something much, much worse – the office temperature.
Women complaining about the office temperature being too cold is nothing new, it turns out this complaint is really affecting everyone. In a survey by the International Interior Design Association to figure out what workers hate the most about their office space, the results were clear: inability to change the temperature on the thermostat was far and away the winner, with 46% of respondents saying that this was their number one complaint, even above privacy, noise, and comfort of furniture.
Of course, the temperature itself isn’t the problem – only 36% of respondents complained about the temperature – but the ability to control it is affects and annoys us all equally. If the office is too hot, you just have to suffer through, and if it’s too cold, you spend your days wrapped in a blanket curled up by your space heater drinking hot tea….in August. While there’s no easy solution to this problem, I guess we should take solace in the fact that as Americans, literally the worst thing in our work lives is not having they key to the plastic box over the thermostat. I may have to always wear an office coat, but in the grand scheme of things, I guess things actually aren’t that bad after all. .
[via QZ]
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Steph W.
Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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When my female coworkers complain about the cold office temperatures, I ask, “which would you prefer – we raise the temperature in here 5 degrees and you’re comfortable BUT now you get to smell all the men’s BO or you just put on a cardigan?” They usually go with cardigan (or full-size blanket if you’re Debbie from subcontracting).
Fuckin’ Debbie.
i have a full size, heated, leopard print blanket. don’t hate!
How hard is it to dress for the work environment? You go there almost everyday, you should know what to expect the temp to be.
If it’s pushing 100 degrees outside but I feel like I need to wear gloves at my desk, dressing for the environment is a bitch
Thank you! If it’s 80-100 outside, I’m not going to wear dress pants and a sweater.
That’s why I don’t put my sweater on until I get to the office. Use your head.
Ever consider having a different set of clothes at your desk to change into when you get into the office?
The hotter your average temp, the more moist, so the more likely you are going to have mold and bacteria problems. This leads to more people getting sick, and loss of productivity. Also, men typically wear 2 layers more than women in the workplace, especially in the summer. As a result, they don’t feel the affects as much. Lastly, an optimal HVAC design is typically only pleases 80% of people in the first place, and most buildings aren’t designed optimally.
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Yeah – cuz what I really look for in my work day is having to listen to people argue over what the temperature should be set at. Let the building/facility management set the temperature, buy a sweater, and find something more important to complain about.
How many fucking articles can you publish about this non-issue. Wear a GD sweater. I don’t complain about the office being hot in the summer when I’m forced to wear pants and a long sleeve shirt at least four days a week.
it’s freezing in my office. i used to have a space heater, but we can’t have those anymore…so now i have a heated throw blanket.
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I work in a firm of 6 people (5 of us are women) in an office suite that was re-designed without building management’s approval. We’re always cold, boss is always hot, and the thermostats don’t work anyway because no one has any clue how the HVAC got the way it is.
So the boss bought us all space heaters. Smart man.
My office is all women and it’s a constant battle of changing the thermostat and then saying “no I’m not sure who set it all the way up to 72, maybe it’s broken” while one girl who is always hot turns it down to 65.
puffy vest over my casual dress shirts helps keep the draft from my window at bay – my colleagues silently judge me for wearing it everyday – although my fashion taste is subject.. i’m all about functionality. #PGP