Every week I acquire a newspaper from our mailman about all of the local corporations in the area and what these corporations are doing to improve their carbon footprint, how they are saving money and new projects that they are implementing… It’s really interesting to get a different perspective on how different companies view particular things, then for example there was a four-page spread on heating and cooling.
- It was surprising to me that people really fight over the office temperature, however according to the newspaper it found that ladies are more sensitive to temperature fluctuations than men! There’s also a statistic that said at least 21% of people have secretly changed the office’s control component while in the summer.
I’m not sure how people get away with changing the control component when a lot of office control units have locks on them where you need a particular code or key to change the set temperature on the control unit. I cannot imagine getting in an fight with my coworker over what the set temperature is. I feel like that would create such a hostile and petty work environment. I can see if the co-worker is doing it every day and all the people else is complaining about it, that would be a different story. A straight-forward repair to a temperature war in the office environment would be to install a mini split system in particular parts of the office building so people can have their own control units and control their own temperatures through zone control heating and cooling. If I were some of these corporations and had a lot of money in my budget I would contact a local heating and cooling professional to get a free quote on zone control.