空调究竟该调到多少度？

20160824ou 一中两外锵锵三人行 今日话题： 有报道称，办公室空调调高有利于提高工作效率。你同意吗？ LW: I came across the report by HVCNR which is a research company that measures the productivity of workers in the office when it comes to the air-conditioning. What they found was that if the temperature is too low, your workers are less efficient and produce less output. When you bump it up to 27- 28 degrees the output in the office more than doubles. NL: 28 degrees? That sounds hot to me. LW: Yeah, that’s alright for me, since I’m from a particularly hot country and I don’t really have problems with it. Maybe 26 or 25 degrees would be my sweet spot. It’s interesting that you guys mentioned different temperatures. Of course it is a very subjective thing and it turns out that there actually is a big difference between women and men when it comes to the air conditioning. What do you suspect that might be You You. WY: Take me for example. I usually wear a dress but if the temperature in the office drops down to about 20 or 21 degrees, that would be too cold for me and I can’t wear it. For male workers, usually they will wear suits or at the very least, pants. It’s the case that most of them cannot wear shorts in the working places, so that means the temperature needs to line up with people’s working dress codes. LW: The thing that you need to keep in mind is that all of this goes back to a formula drawn up in the sixties. These two scientists came together and needed to find a formula or an algorithm for what needed to be the temperature in the office. What they used as the baseline to test is the physiology of a 40-year old male, who weight approximately 70kg to 75kg. Now obviously most offices don’t look like that, you have a lot of shapes and sizes, a lot of different ages which plays a massive part. There are a lot of different ethnicities perhaps or cultures and how people have adapted to heat and to the cold so people are saying maybe it is time for us to change that. So it’s a weird thing that definitely needs to be addressed. And one of the ways that they’ve tried to address it is through this interesting app called ‘comfy’. “Comfy” gives you three options, you can have ‘warm my space’, ‘cool my space’ or ‘I’m comfy’ and through the day the heating and cooling system in the building responds to those requests. The goal is to keep it in this optimum range where everyone is happy and everyone is comfortable and that way it\s not a big problem going forward into the office.