Man here, it's too cold. The one woman on my team is always bundled up with a sweater or blanket.
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Many women I see around my offices have space heaters under their desks. Often right beside their computers. Drives me nuts (IT person). I have never seen a guy with one, probably due to males having a higher performing circulatory system vs women (a guess) as well as male dress codes requiring all skin except hands and face to not be visible.
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This is the way it is at our place. I would hate to see the electric bill. But I really don't know the solution, either. Can't make both parties happy and being hot/sweaty leads to other unpleasant side-effects such as smells, so I tend to think cool is better than warm for that reason alone.
Yep. This is true. I'm a woman and I'm almost always cold. My husband teases me about it. Even during the height of summer I bring sweaters with me to movie theaters and restaurants. When I had an office job I always had jackets.
Solution: women wear the suits and men start wearing the skirts 😊
Solution: women wear the suits and men start wearing the skirts 😊
I always wear a sweatshirt jacket at work, even in the summer. The only other people I see doing it are the little old ladies so I assume I'm on that end of the spectrum.
I'm a relatively thin dude, which is probably a big part of it. Not much meat on my extremities.
I'm a relatively thin dude, which is probably a big part of it. Not much meat on my extremities.
This is why I brought a fan for my desk.
Everywhere I've worked it's been too hot for me because the women wanted it that way. Guys can't walk around in their underwear but women can put on a sweater.
Same thing at home. Fighting over the thermostat setting is never ending.
freeze out the building. I love the cold. anything above 68-70 and im going to start sweating profusely doing nothing. So take it or leave it? lol Performance or a building smelling like BO.
Women have an average skin surface are of 1.6m^2, compared to 1.9m^2 for men, so thermodynamics is likely to play a big role in preferred room temperature.
I'd be a fucking construction worker if I wanted to sweat my ass off.
I admit I'll never understand how one of my female coworkers still complains about it being cold now in May, when it's about 75 in the office while wearing a jacket, while in winter we can barely maintain 60 in the office. They're such completely different levels of cold that it's baffling to me that she complains about it as much now as in the depths of winter.
But that's part of the fun of working in a historic building I suppose
But that's part of the fun of working in a historic building I suppose
I'd be down for this, I always thought it made more sense for men to wear skirts any way! I'm a bloke and the slightest increase in termperature gives me migraines, tunnel vision, brain fog. The Summer is only beginning here and I've already had enough. Middle of December, windows open, hands like ice, that's when I've got the most clarity and am happy, and productive.
It's actually pretty funny… my office mate has a fan pointed at him at his desk. So we've both got extra appliances going all day because the set temperature doesn't feel good to either of us.
It's way too cold in my office and nobody can apparently get to the root of it. Everybody's cold. Better than working in an uninsulated cinderblock "office" that was a former science lab though, like my last job. I wish there was the possibility of being too warm at work for once.
I need cold temps in my office. If anything heat will kill my productivity. I get irritated when hot and it makes me not want to do anything until I cool down.
Uh, ok, but that goes in the wrong direction. Heat radiated (i.e. lost) by a body is typically proportional to the surface area of a body, if that's all it was, men should prefer it warmer. Obviously more to it than that.
The day it becomes socially acceptable for me to wear shorts in an office like women can wear a far wider range of clothes than pretty much a suit and not much variation is the day I might yield on the thermostat being too low for others.
I'm a man, and it's 75 outside today and I'm walking around in a jacket. Just don't really get hot.
Our office is usually hovering around 74-76 indoors, mostly because one of the older women in the office set up the thermostat. I'm cool with it, but sometimes when the temp is high I need to step outside for some fresh air because it gets too stuffy.
Our office is usually hovering around 74-76 indoors, mostly because one of the older women in the office set up the thermostat. I'm cool with it, but sometimes when the temp is high I need to step outside for some fresh air because it gets too stuffy.
It's silly. Women (usually) aren't the ones making you hide your legs. And I'd bet most women would be all for men being allowed to wear shorts if it meant they didn't have to freeze at work all day lol.
News: gender-related standards being considered by regulators
Good news regarding this issue, just over a week ago roughly 50 standards bodies signed a Declaration on Gender Responsive Standards and Standards Development.
The heater is on under the desk for more than half of the women I've worked with over the years.
Never seen or worked with a guy who has had a heater under their desk.
Never seen or worked with a guy who has had a heater under their desk.
I'm male, but I also like things to be on the warmer side. I think there is this notion in schools and workplaces that having the room just ever so slightly too cool for comfort keeps people alert. I remember several teachers in particular mentioning this. I guess some people have a tenancy to want to doze off if it's too comfortable.
In Puerto Rico people tend to like office temperatures because it's basically summer all year long here.
This. While I symphatise with anyone (it's not just women) who is cold when the AC is on in the summer, I just can't work good when I'm hot and I can't wear less clothing when I get to t-shirt level. I would have no problem with wearing an extra layer or two if I was cold.
And yet, despite this, I feel like "I'm cold" always takes precedence to "I'm too warm", regardless of gender.
This is me. I wear a sweater in the office, I don't care you think I'm weird.
If I'm freezing, I feel very uncomfortable and feel I can't focus on my job. Shit sucks since its every day episode.
Last job, sometimes even during winter they had the temp low. Fuck freezing inside and out.
We can wear shorts at my office, sucks to be you. But mostly because this complain is stupid af. Buy better breathing pants ya philistine.