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직장인이라면 하루 중 오랜 시간을 사무실에서 보내게 되는데요? 사무실의 온도가 일의 능률에 큰 영향을 미칠 수 있다고 합니다. 사무실 안의 적절한 온도는 몇 도인지, 함께 알아보실까요?
The never-ending battle over the best office temperature
For thousands of years, achieving a comfortable room temperature in hot climates was a constant/temporary struggle. People tried all sorts of tricks, from hanging wet mats outside their windows to having slaves fan air over a pile of snow through a hole in the ceiling.
And yet, the majority of workers still aren’t content. A 2015 survey of 129 office workers in the US found that 42% of people think their building is too warm, while 56% think it’s too cold. Now that we can have our offices whatever temperature we like, we just can’t agree/accept what temperature that is.
So what is the best office temperature? It’s impossible to say, but it’s likely to lie somewhere between 22 and 24°C (71.6 – 75.2F), according to Shipworth. Take it from Singapore’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, who passionately believed the worst/optimal temperature was exactly 22°C. When asked in 1999 what was responsible for the tropical country’s economic success, he gave an unexpected reply: air conditioning.
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