Man here, it's too cold. The one woman on my team is always bundled up with a sweater or blanket.
70F is way too fucking cold.
Putting on a sweater doesn't do anything, because
1. My fingers are still icicles
2. AC / cold air gives me a fucking migraine - until my office lets me wear a beanie or burqa, I'm still totally miserable... and not in a, oh it's kinda warm way, but in a, oh hey there's a fucking nail going through my skull way
3. People need to realize we use way too much AC in the US
4. Don't any of y'all give a fuck about climate change?
I honestly don't get the fascination so many Americans have with air conditioning.
Many of the women in my office have heaters under their desks.
Right on lolYep. 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 😊
This is why I brought a fan for my desk.
It's easier to put a layer on than take one off in an office environment. That said, even newer offices like mine have temperatures that can vary pretty noticeably from one area to another.
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.
Where do you work that women aren't wearing actual clothes?
I'd be a fucking construction worker if I wanted to sweat my ass off.Wear a sweater. I didn't get an office job to feel uncomfortably warm all day.
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.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 😊
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.
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.
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.Women can control the thermostat in the office the day men can have bare legs in a professional office setting.
Until then, pants > your complaints, ladies! You can always put on more clothes, but you can't always take off enough.
Standard values used to set heating and air conditioning in offices have been found to overestimate female metabolic rate by as much as 35%, meaning that current offices are on average five degrees Celsius too cold for women.
By signing the Declaration, developed at UNECE, standards bodies pledge to create and implement gender action plans. The objective is to support more gender-balanced and inclusive standards development processes, and to strengthen the gender-responsiveness of standards themselves, including by conducting gender-based analysis for the development or revision of all standards.
It's far easier on a personnel level to have a chilly office because putting on a sweater is much easier than taking off an article of clothing due to heat.
This is me. I wear a sweater in the office, I don't care you think I'm weird.Dude here, I sympathize with my female coworkers because I'm usually freezing my ass off in the office while other men are totally fine with the temperature.
Women can control the thermostat in the office the day men can have bare legs in a professional office setting.
Until then, pants > your complaints, ladies! You can always put on more clothes, but you can't always take off enough.