I feel so sorry for guys. We can wear sun dresses. I cannot even imagine wearing pants in a summer. Poor guys have to wear long pants all year around. Our office may be a bit cooler sometime, but most of the time, I am way too hot even in my sun dress, which makes my brain going into melting mode. Nobody can do anything about temperature, we are in the 14 story building with the central EC.
Oh… OK then.
I had to put a lock on my thermostat. It’s set at 73 year round. A few would prefer 80 or higher especially in the winter. I’ve had untold conversations about dressing in layers to your comfort level. I’m not heating up the building so people can be comfortable in lightweight short sleeve tops and Capri and sandals.
80 in the winter would kill me. 73 in the winter already seems extremely hot and uncomfortable.
Our office thermostats, while adjustable, are odd. You either have air running or heat, there is no in between. My husband’s inner office was freezing yesterday, so i bumped the thermostat up 2 degrees; someone walked by and asked if something was burning as you could smell the heat!!
The women all have jackets at their desk that are put on and removed depending on the time of the day. While there are several thermostats in the office, we can never seem to regulate the temperature. Like someone said above, you can actually walk down the hall and feel the change in temperature and all thermostats are set within 2 degrees of each other!
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I had to put a lock on my thermostat. It’s set at 73 year round. A few would prefer 80 or higher especially in the winter. I’ve had untold conversations about dressing in layers to your comfort level. I’m not heating up the building so people can be comfortable in lightweight short sleeve tops and Capri and sandals.
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I agree.
That said, some people’s medications seem to make them feel hot more easily. My H takes a thyroid med and it makes him run hot. I’m usually bundled up in our home, while he’s sitting in shorts and a T shirt.
Restaurants are like fridges these days. I keep a silk big scarf in my bad to pull out and use as a shawl. Since it’s silk it take little room, but really does the trick.
I agree that women are often colder because our legs are often bare or sock-less, our shoes are often thinner and open toed, and are arms are often exposed or thinly covered. I have found that simply putting something under my feet (as a barrier between floor and shoe-soles) can make a big difference.
As we age, I think we women will run even colder. Yesterday I was walking into Home Depot and it was HOT and HUMID outside, but this sweet little older lady was walking in with long pants, long-sleeved blouses, and THICK sweater. She looked cool as a cucumber.
Some of the more casual dress places do not have such a rule.
It seems more sensible to me to let the inside temperature float within a range, both to save utility costs and to be more closely matched with how people dress for the outside weather that they will be walking through on the way in.
For example, if it is cold outside, does it make sense to make it 80F inside when people will be walking in wearing warmer clothing? Yes, they can remove some layers when walking in, but does it make sense to have them switch from winter dress to summer dress (as opposed to clothing suitable for 65F to 75F)?
Another thread generalizing about men and women. I’m female and always hot, high metabolism I guess. My husband is male and he is always cold. But two other females at work are so cold when I touch them that they like my warm hands. I have to give them a little rub because their hands are like ice.
I never understood the reasoning for dropping the temp to 69° in the winter in the name of saving energy, and then cooling the building to 69° in the summer. Wouldn’t you bump the temp up in the summer in the name of saving energy?
Yes. You can allow the temperature to float within a range (e.g. 65F to 78F) so that the heating is only used below 65F and the air conditioning is only used above 78F. Since people are dressed differently in the winter and summer, this is probably less of a problem than you think.
Our office thermostat is locked but I have the key
Our old lab had a locked plexiglass partial cover over the thermostat so no grad student would dare to mess with the settings. Ha! When the lab would get too hot for our taste, we would blast the box with a heat gun, and when it was too cold, we would put wet paper towels over it and squirt some acetone on it… Never underestimate the tools chemists have at their disposal. 
I also think sitting at a desk and not moving
Oops…sitting and not moving makes people colder. I have suggested people move around some too. I think some would like to light a fire in a trash can they get so cold at 73. I have a separate system in my office on a different floor and keep it much cooler. 73 feels stuffy to me. When it was really bad with complaining from a few I had to ask how high they kept their heat at home. No one kept it set that high when they had to pay the heating bill.
Eyemamom, I’ll thank you not to insinuate that people who get cold easily are just lazy layabouts. Some people (like me) just run colder than other people, and it has nothing to do with moving around. I’m very active-- I’m currently doing a 2700 mile mountain bike ride-- and I still get cold. In the mornings I’ll be wearing my wool sweater, my wool legwarmers and a wool cap, and my riding partner will be in short sleeves and shorts.
CF, saying that sitting in one position makes most people colder than moving about in no way implies that people who run cold are “just lazy layabouts.”
Cf…wth? Having a sedentary job can make you feel colder. I wouldn’t keep anyone on board who was a lazy lay about. I do encourage people to get up and away from their computers.
I run cold, and if I worked in an cold office it wouldn’t make a significant difference to get up and walk around occasionally; I’d still be cold. And if someone suggested that getting up and walking around would warm me up significantly, I’d think they were an ignorant, smug, meddling busybody who needed to shut their damn trap. That being said, I agree with those above that say that indoor spaces ought to be cooler in the winter, and warmer in the summer, to save energy, and if I need to wear a sweater indoors in the winter, I’ll put one on.
In the bedroom at night, my H always wants it warmer than I do. He often turns off the AC or turns it up. In winter he wears socks and piles on comforters while I am pushing them off. So???
Maybe menopause should be considered in the study!
No, menopause is not a problem for me. I’m always been hot. I don’t even have hot flash with menopause. Nothing. My sister on the other hand had lots of problem in menopause. I think she’s the alcohol drinker in the family and that’s my guess where’s the difference.