Our offices’ temperatures may be set by a ‘thermal comfort model’ from the 1960s based on the comfort of a 40-year-old man, Newsroom reports. Research consistently shows women prefer – and even work better at – higher indoor temperatures than men. Women, on average, prefer an office temperature at about 24C; men are most comfortable at about 21C. Yet researchers reckon office temperatures will overestimate women’s resting heat production by as much as 35%.
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