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28c in the offices in a rich industrialized country? I wonder how much productivity they loose because of that.

Markoff 9y ago
if it's 35-40 outside you don't wanna collapse when you step outside, just because inside office you had 20-21, which actually means free degrees less since temperature sensor is usually on unit at ceiling with hot air
- thatwebdude 9y ago
  > which actually means free degrees less since I see what you did that. I'm not sure if you meant that, though.
herbst 9y ago
this is 100% anecdotal. But I got the impression that you get used to it rather fast if the climate is consistently hot for a while. Source: I got used to Bangkok's climate in a month and happily worked with a fan only, without AC
- wingerlang 9y ago
  How? My countersource is that I didn't get used to it at all (several years) and seemingly neither of my co workers have either. The days when AC is off in the office, well it's pretty much empty.
  - Dunan 9y ago
    I've been enduring 28-degree Tokyo for a decade. You never get used to it.
    - myrandomcomment 9y ago
      I agree. I am here for a week a month for about the last 10 years. I think it would be possiable to get used to it if you did not have to wear a suite and tie!
- myrandomcomment 9y ago
  My guess is you are not in a suite and tie?
  - herbst 9y ago
    Mostly naked. My point is just that I did not feel my productivity die from heat alone after a while
Dunan 9y ago
"28c in the offices in a rich industrialized country? I wonder how much productivity they loose because of that." A lot. The 28-degree "standard" has in fact been in place since 2005, when introduced by now-Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike who spent her younger years in Egypt, and has spread from government offices to almost the entire nation. In winter there is no corresponding artificially-low indoor temperature; if anything, they tend to keep it at 25-26 or more. Total victory for the warm-blooded lizards and total misery for us hairy folk.

if it's 35-40 outside you don't wanna collapse when you step outside, just because inside office you had 20-21, which actually means free degrees less since temperature sensor is usually on unit at ceiling with hot air

thatwebdude 9y ago
> which actually means free degrees less since I see what you did that. I'm not sure if you meant that, though.

herbst 9y ago

this is 100% anecdotal. But I got the impression that you get used to it rather fast if the climate is consistently hot for a while. Source: I got used to Bangkok's climate in a month and happily worked with a fan only, without AC

wingerlang 9y ago
How? My countersource is that I didn't get used to it at all (several years) and seemingly neither of my co workers have either. The days when AC is off in the office, well it's pretty much empty.
- Dunan 9y ago
  I've been enduring 28-degree Tokyo for a decade. You never get used to it.
  - myrandomcomment 9y ago
    I agree. I am here for a week a month for about the last 10 years. I think it would be possiable to get used to it if you did not have to wear a suite and tie!
myrandomcomment 9y ago
My guess is you are not in a suite and tie?
- herbst 9y ago
  Mostly naked. My point is just that I did not feel my productivity die from heat alone after a while

Dunan 9y ago

"28c in the offices in a rich industrialized country? I wonder how much productivity they loose because of that." A lot. The 28-degree "standard" has in fact been in place since 2005, when introduced by now-Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike who spent her younger years in Egypt, and has spread from government offices to almost the entire nation. In winter there is no corresponding artificially-low indoor temperature; if anything, they tend to keep it at 25-26 or more. Total victory for the warm-blooded lizards and total misery for us hairy folk.