Scientists in the Netherlands published a study Monday detailing how office buildings set temperatures based on an old formula using metabolic rates for men. It concludes that buildings should “reduce gender-discriminating bias in thermal comfort” and begin to set higher temperatures to reduce the effect on global warming.
Most buildings follow a model developed in the 1960s that uses the metabolic rate of a 154-pound, 40-year-old man, which may explain why many women say they are cold in offices. Read more at The New York Times.
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I wish it were true!! My office is horribly the other way!!
Total nonsense.
Looks like the statement “If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen” is soon going to be replaced with “If you can’t take the air-conditioning, get out of the office”.