Why People are Always Fighting Over the Thermostat
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- Negotiating thermostat settings can be really frustrating, but your officemate isn't trying to freeze you out on purpose. Stefan explains the science behind why people experience temperatures differently.
Fun fact: Stefan wears a jacket inside year round.
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If my dad were narrating this it would've just been a 6 second long clip of him saying "because money doesn't grow on trees" and that's it
because it's true :D
My parents like it at 62 F or 64 F during the winter...
i mean paper comes from trees and the government literally just prints that stuff out by the billions every day
@@cageybee7221 at risk of being whoooooshed, money a made from fabric or plastic
@@MrMediator24 Cloth is usually still from plants, and plastic is increasingly being made from synthetic oil which is plant derived.
I can't believe there's an actual scientific backing to my mom saying "just looking at you makes me cold, put on a sweater"
Right!! It makes me mad !
"So it might be worth upping the thermostat..."
Hence the age-old saying, you can always add layers, but you can only take off so many until you get escorted out of the office.
As an always hot person, AGREE SO MUCH! Colder people can add layers, but hot people can only take off so much and still be decent. People who are sweating are likely even less productive than people who are too cold!
@@Lioness006 That's why you telecommute to work 💻
So you mean lower the thermostat...upping it makes it warmer....
@John McKay more like 74F :P
@John McKay Don't forget the super thin leggings all the women seem to wear now. Perhaps if they had more than 0.01" of material covering their legs they wouldn't be so cold!
"looking at hot people makes you hotter" i wish man, i wish ...
No wonder I'm so cold at school
"We're all human"
Me: Yeah... all of us... *looks around nervously*
MAC WANTS THE FLAMETHROWER
Reptile people need a more warm place to live.
Why is everyone looking at me. I'm not an alien I'm just short and bald
One of us here is possessed by an owl
@@stevenpetrillo9527 who?
Doctor: I'm so sorry, but we've done everything we can, but your dad may never wake up from this Coma
Me: Hey, let me try something? **Turns the thermostat up **
Me dad: **opens one eye**
W H O
T O U C H E D
T H E R M O S T A T
I love this comment! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Me dad? Are you from the UK?
"If you're cold put on a sweater or start paying on the gas bill and then you can turn up the thermostat."
-my dad and also probably me when I have kids
"What, do you little rugrats own stock in the power company or somethin'?"
that's a shitty parent then. some kids need a warm temperature did you not watch the video?
"I did not choose to be born." would be the answer.
@@im_so_bored3896 the same kids will gives lessons about "climate emergency". Good grief.
In my area parents get mad when you turn on the AC. Having to warm up a room artificially seems so ludacris to me that my mind can't even start to process the notion.
my work station is directly below the AC & my coworkers call that area “the north pole” & me the “polar bear” lmao
LOL, sorry 🥶
I know your struggle
Have you tried covering yourself in peanut butter
sounds like heaven to someone like me who always runs extremely warm and is sweating before anyone else. The colder the better I say.
That would be the spot I would ask for.
I feel the heat so badly. Anything over 25C and I can barely function. Then there's a woman at work who's wearing her woolies all the way into June, turning on the heating and shutting windows.
As you can imagine, we get on great...
i dont understand how people in places like Southern California wear stocking caps/beanies in the summer when i sweat with them on in a British Columbia November.
Lew Bear Yikes. There is no solution to that
Where I live it gets to 40c at some point it was 52c I literally feel like I'm in the oven sometimes lol
@@Mawad7 I gotta say, I'd do everything in my power to move far far away lol.
I wanna move further north before climate change makes things worse anyway
@@LewBearMusic yeah I want to move too
I mean, when my classroom is cold, I can put on a jumper and be fine. If my classroom is hot... what am I supposed to do? The number of layers I can remove is precisely 0 and walking around with a fan is “unprofessional”.
Kinda depends on the range of temperature. Usually people argue between 20 and 25C / 68 and 77F. Not really a temperature where anyone would need to get naked or jump into winter-clothes.
Another issue is, that Clothes do not warm you, they insulate you. Your body does the heating, which is kept close to the body. In desert-countries the traditional clothes are just as thick as our winter-clothes, so the heat from the outside is kept from reaching the body, which is keeping you cool.
Perceived temperature can be manipulated with color though. If you're in a light-blue room you'll feel colder than in a "warmer colored" room, like orange or red, despite the thermometer giving you the same reading.
@@liquidminds 25C is definitely on the uncomfortably warm side of the spectrum, honestly 18 or or so would be my preference.
And clearly because of the insulating effect clothes affect the TNZ mentioned in the video.
at my school, you would get thrown out if you wore a jacket in the classroom. Jackets, hats, and even blankets were banned in the classroom because it would create too much dust
@@roderik1990
At that temperature I need either direct sunlight or more layers than indoor clothing to keep from shivering, so that's definitely not in _my_ TNZ.
Lol you sound just like my mom! She has said basically the same thing.
I have hypothyroidism and I get cold all the time, my hands and feet can somes feel ice cold to the touch.
There aren't many CZcams videos, that mention hypothyroidism, so thank you.
I was a little excited to hear Reynaud's mentioned, LoL
Same here!! I always thought I was just weird that way with hating the cold bc I get cold SO quickly until I learned I have hypothyroidism (my hands are almost always freezing cold too when it gets below 20C, and I fail to retain/make body heat in general), and I'm glad they brought it up too bc after I learned about it a while ago. I was hoping and glad they'd mention it!
I was a bit surprised when I heard him mentioning, because I have hypothyroidism but I am known for using less clothes than the average person and I like what many call cold. Is being medicated for it enough of an explanation?
hyperthyroidism gets all the attention and most people dont know the difference
When I had a severely hyperthyroid I didn't experience any change in temperature tolerance. Then again, at the time, I despised the heat anyway.
I hate shivering, but I can still function. However, if I’m hot and sweaty my brain and body totally shuts down. It’s simple, if you’re cold, add clothes... I can’t get naked in public. So keep it cool!
I can, you get free clothes when you're released from jail too.
I'm almost always TOO HOT! To the point where I actually like being a little bit chilly for a nice break. I hate the summer and hate not being able to hide in a coat/jacket/sweater etc. but at the same time, I still sweat in the winter with just 2 layers on.
Same!
I can be standing (no exercise) outside in a blizzard and I can have on a single jacket (no shirt) and be sweating
My Raynaud's doesn't like people like you.
@@asiablack1968 I used to have this problem... So actually sweating super easily is a treatable thing if it is an issue for you, look up Hypercare or alternatives like driclor. In seriousness it can reduce or eliminate sweating up to 100%. I don't use deodorant any more, and I used to sweat thru like single layers easy... it's way less embarrassing now. Only learned about it thru pharmacy school.
@@Lioness006 Have you ever heard of hypercare or driclor? If you really have sweat problems and want a real fix, it is ACTUAL medical grade anti-antiperspirant that works and can eliminate sweating up to 100% in problem areas like under arms.
I live in Brazil. Here nature controls the thermostat, always at 3000 kelvin
Brazil: where cars have AC but you're not allowed to use it because "you'll get sick" 🤦🏻♀️
not where I'm from, in the south, where it goes from 0°C to 40°C, sometimes half of this in a single day
My mom from right above y'all: Can confirm
Poor@@MarcosRodriguesCarvalho, I understand your pain. Variação abrupta de temperatura é uma merda
i dont know how my family in Bangkok survive the summers when its 100F/38C and 120% humidity
I actually perform better when it is colder because for me in the heat I feel like I am melting
Yeah, I feel very sluggish in the heat and pretty much can't think, while a little chill wakes me up usually. But I also have Raynaud's, so my fingers will become stiffer at around 65 F and start numbing up at 60 F.
I do too. That surprised me. I cannot think well in hot weather.
Same here, can't think in the heat, I don't understand this "study".
I'm the opposite, when I'm cold I want to curl up into a ball and not move to try to keep my body heat in. Compared to when i'm lightly sweating; moving around cools me off because it evaporates away the sweat.
@Kernels Making myself uncomfortable by wearing a bunch of layers of clothes isn't any better then being uncomfortable from being cold.
Disconnect the thermostat from the air handler, hard wire the AC on.
Watch them fruitlessly adjust the thermostat as ambient reaches absolute zero.
i'm an electrician and did something similar once by tampering with the thermostat wiring
It's not that uncommon for thermostats in office buildings to not actually be wired to anything, and instead it's controlled from a central location. Not only does this save a business a lot of money, but people tend to be happier when they think they have control over the thermostat even if turning it up/down doesn't actually change the temperature.
At my work it started getting warm in the spring and everyone kept turning the thermostat temperature lower and couldn't figure out why it was still hot...at one point it was set to 56 degrees Fahrenheit. It was set to heat, not cool.
What we need is thermal adjustable clothing so every person can be their ideal temperature in most circumstances.
... it's called a sweater.
@@omninulla9472 i agree so much
@@omninulla9472 How would you cool yourself then?
@@elevatoroperator2021 turn down the normal thermostat?
@@omninulla9472 Something that can keep you at the same temperature all the time.
Feel like that whole temperature contagioun effect is either a measure of one's empathy or their susceptibility to social pressures.
"Don't touch the thermostat!"
OK Sheldon.
WHO TOUCHED ME THERMOSTAT?!
This is why we need guns
@@LaterXavier-TX SPONGEBOY ME BOB, SQUIDWARD TOUCHED ME THERMOSTAT SO I KILLED HIM.
HAND ME A SHOVEL BOYO ARR ARR ARR
Don’t touch that dial!
You can always get warmer by putting on more clothes, being naked at work isn’t allowed however.
It's the logical solution, and is a woman that usually feels cold saying it :P
Depends where you work
@@gymnodinium9
Well, don't hold your breath waiting for a woman to accept the logical solution.
It works to an extent I agree, however for me I still get really cold. The other day in class (I live in Hawaii - literally a tropical environment) I had to put on a fluffy sweater and even though I had that and long pants on, my hands and feet were still so cold because the AC was turned down so low. Layers only work if you produce enough body heat to begin with, and I really don’t. :(
@@bcubed72 ah, nothing like some misogyny
On one of those closing statements, I would have liked for them to address if feeling too hot also impacts cognitive functions, as they did for women feeling too cold.
They mentioned that heat didn't have as a large of an effect as cold did, although the range tested was only just a bit beyond comfortable. Sahara vs Antarctica might be different, but less relevant.
5:03 "... and the shift [warmer] didn't significantly harm the men's scores."
@@Suedocode that shift was in the comfortable range, but I'm curious if that holds true when we get to the sweating point.
Being hot effects me more than being cold. My hubs is the opposite.
Overbite Games i need to do that, I had a few frog in boiling water nights this past summer
I'm only a single person, but I have a rather low tolerance, and I start struggling at 25°C. At 30°C and above I experience the kind of haze often associated with fevers, unless I have been acclimated gradually. I suppose it's worth mentioning that my normal body temperature runs at approximately 36°C or so, and I do have a pretty good tolerance for cold
5:00
I had so many teacher who said cold rooms help you focus. Always felt it was a daft idea as it would distract me to no end. However I did sympathize with the concept that a minor, stable, distraction could prevent could help avoid a "wandering distraction" allowing one to keep more focused on a single task.
Many teenagers are sleep deprived, and cold helps keep you awake better than heat...
Yeah, the single task of keeping warm.
"28-32 degrees celcius"
You obviously never talked to a single Canadian for that survey. 28C and still air is hell.
Minnesotan here. Strong agree. Where do these people come from? The clarifying point that they were talking about no clothing does not help much either.
Unfortunately being Canadian doesn't really mean much in this kind of scenario (I say this as a Canadian myself, since you can literally be from anywhere in the world and still be Canadian as well). As a biracial woman with hypothyroidism and petite (for some genetic background and health factor variables as an example), I absolutely FAIL at retaining body heat (so I suffer with the cold weather here), so that higher temperature range stated in the video is perfect for me. I envy people who find more comfort in colder temperatures, haha (anything below 20-25C makes me start to shiver and gives me the icy touch :/ )
Scandinavian person. We tend to think a general temperature of 20°C is pretty good.
@@Ikajo
When it's 20°C in Scandinavia, it's usually sunny, so that affects things a lot. 20°C in the shade is pretty warm if I'm in direct sunlight. 20°C indoors is a few degrees chillier than I'm comfortable with.
@@ragnkja Um... it doesn't have to be sunny to be 20°C in Sweden... during summer that's pretty normal.
I sweat when I shiver, guess I’ll just be perpetually uncomfortable
I have found that when I have not slept enough, something gets cross-wired about my internal thermostat and the range of temperatures between "too hot" and "too cold" becomes non-existent.
@@OrigamiMarie I have yet another reason to get better sleep now. Am I actually going to go to bed earlier? No.
but do you shiver when you sweat?
you sound like your part chihuahua
@@Kittsuera I do. It's called hot flashes.
I'm curious about how I seem to always be warmer than those around me, and how I feel comfortable in colder environments other people would feel chilly in
Same. I'm always hot. If it's more than 65 F outside, I'm too hot. If it's more than 70 F inside, I'm too hot. I prefer 66-69 F inside. Cooler in the summer tho.
Same work in a freezer and sweat
Me too.
Same here. Offices usually have me sweating. Height, age, diet and body fat make a huge difference. I think people also acclimate to different temps over time but I could be wrong.
@@shadowprince4482 acclimation is a thing. Take someone out of the frozen north and put them in a more temperate climate and over time they won't be able to handle the cold as well. Happened to my brother when he moved to California. Took a couple years though
omg i get cold sooo easily, i have to bring a sweater with me wherever i go, even in the 100F weather in Florida, cuse i know as soon as i go into class or some other air-conditioned building that's invariably at arctic temperatures, i'm gonna need that sweater.
eat more carbs and go do academy, you'll never feel cold again.
Zenytram Searom
i eat almost exclusively carbs, i love carbs, i love everything about them. i still have a 15.5bmi though, and nothing i do lets me put on any weight. but carbs are life.
i have no idea what academy is though
What is with that in the south, right? Man, people love to CRANK that AC!
Joe Al
i do. i'm full veg, so indian food is one of my favorites. i always get it as hot as they'll make it, and then get masala sauce on the side to make it hotter. spicy food and carbs are life
Or, just accept a hug from me 😉
Work in a factory, night shift. They recently turned down the AC and have let the building get hotter and more humid during the night. The excuse “It doesn’t get as hot during the night so you don’t need really need it.” But you can be sure the AC up in the offices gets turned on 2 hours before anyone shows up there. Now what happens to machine parts when you turn up the temperature and humidity? They rust. I have seen more rust form on our machines in the last 3 months than I’ve seen in the last 3 years. Some rust is so bad it looks like the metal is growing fur. And are we given time to clean and maintain the machines? Nope. Gotta keep to the schedule, it’s only when something breaks that things get fixed.
I like my bed room to be at 64 degrees makes me want to just go in my blankets and sleep
take care! if your country goes metric one day, the 1st minute of that day can kill you.
@@istvansipos9940 Let's all just go Kelvin, and set our thermometers to 291. Sure, we'd bake everybody in the first few minutes, but after that, survivors would agree no matter where they were.
We could be certain to leave bread dough or cookie dough in pans on countertops the night of the conversion.
So uhh... is that like cold in freedom units? Or do you like sleeping in a boiling hellscape every day?
@@Neo2266. 291 degrees Kelvin is a kewl 64 degrees Farenheit; hardly a hellscape. The problem would be on everyone and everything agreeing on a system. I fear the adjustment would be hell.
Technically a cold room helps you sleep better. I think sci show might have talked on this or I had read it somewhere. I've always noticed I sleep way better with a cooler room then the temp I have during the day. Used to sleep with the window open during the winters in Wisconsin. Best sleep ever. Lots of blankets and fresh air. ❤
We were *just* fighting about this and this video comes up
Did it help you resolve the conflict?
Your phone heard you and told Google to tell CZcams to stop the argument.
Jokes on you, I've always been too poor to have a thermostat.
So read it as 'different numbers of blankets'
And yet, here you are...on the internet
@@LeatherNeck1833 Okay?....
LeatherNeck 1833 because public wifi or internet access isn’t a thing...? Ever been to a coffee shop or university campus or library?
@@cassiesevigny Sure I have and you have now way of knowing that that's what they'er using. Either way, the comment was, "I've always been too poor to have a thermostat."
I find it ironic that someone who is obviously educated (he/she used "too" and not to), has access to either personal phone, tablet, or PC or has the funds to rent out public locations regularly....but has never had a thermostat in their residence. That's what I'm calling BS on.
In my house the husband and kids who laid around watching TV were always cold, while I worked up a sweat running from room to room, cleaning, doing laundry, making dinner and the like.
Sounds like delegating would be a good idea.
0:26 Even I experience different temperatures differently. Sometimes 15°C feels hot and some other time 22°C feels cold.
I have a medicated hypothyroidism, and yeah, when my family can stay half-naked in the fall inside, i'm freezing like crazy >.>. Finding that nice temperature is really hard.
I take rx for hypothyroidism too, but apparently, I'm a freak. I'm still the one saying it's too hot.
I would rather be cold than hot and sweating.
I used to work in a call center where the complaints that it was too cold didn't stop (and the plug in heated blankets and such didn't go away) until we hit 77F. And by that point I was generating a pool of sweat just sitting still
The hubbub over the thermostat at work, years ago, we installed individual thermostats in the various areas so the people who worked in them had 'control' over their own area's temperature and most folks were happier. The trick was that they were hooked to NOTHING we still had the control in the office so just the idea that they could get up and move the dial seemed to help most people but if more than one person worked in the same area there were still battles over the dials, the dials that did nothing but give them the comfort of moving them. A bit dodgy perhaps but seemed to help the overall situation if somewhat fictitiously, OK, it was a downright lie to the workers.
Re: office thermostats
Men are often required to wear pants and sometimes long-sleeved shirts. Whereas women can wear dresses/skirts and sleeveless tops. If I were allowed to wear shorts and a tank top, a higher temp would be more tolerable.
Yes, plus, women have lower basal metabolic rates so they create less heat. If anything, men should wear skirts and sleeveless tops and women should wear suits.
Drew L., Stupid comment
@@darkestlight6784 How is that a stupid comment? It's true. Suits are hot.
Abandon that s*cked up thing and join the startup culture where you can wear frickin anything.
So, maybe if a woman is cold all the time, the answer is to stop dressing like a hoochie mama?
Growing up the heater was at 68F. I vowed to never set it that low one I had my own place, and I've found 72-75F is my golden zone (72 if I'm up on moving, 75 if I'm sitting). Too bad my current roommate keeps it at 70F. It's amazing how much of a difference two degrees makes it. I wore my sweatshirt pretty much every day of summer, because I was too cold inside.
Yes, my mom keeps it at 69. I'm always freezing.
You need more water and vegetables
75 degrees is outside temp lol
At 70 indoors I'm wearing boxers
Just boxers
Brandon N
Exactly this video should be titled
Healthy vs nutrient deficient
awesome video, your recent content has been so good, as good as it used to be 3 years ago :)
I got shivers when he started talking about people feeling the same temperature of the one they see
I yelled at my screen when she turned it up past 70 at 0:10
Right? I thought she was gonna stop at 69° (not because of a joke or anything, but because that's a generally comfortable temperature) and she just kept going and going and I'm like "NO, STOP IT YOU MONSTER! PLEASE, GOD, HAVE MERCY"
Is 80-somethin degrees really the comfort zone of people? Even without clothes that seems way too hot...
Maybe it's because my thermostat is in the middle of my house, so when you set it to 65 it's 72-74 everywhere else in the house. Still, I don't know anyone who passes 70, except maybe my grandma.
Does location have an impact because I live in Scandinavia and ~30°C is waaaay to hot.
Yes, hormones will be the biggest factor
Not to mention making milk is a pretty extensive chemical reaction = making more heat
@@J3NNYDOLL What are you talking about? I mentioned Scandinavia, nothing else...
What you've grown up with definitely affects things. (Also, that temperature is for a sedentary naked person, which isn't really representative of everyday activity.)
i think that depends lot on humidity, on the eastern part of my state 30C wouldnt be too bad but on my side near all the lakes, rivers, and ocean 30C is a friggin oven. at 30C my chickens will be laying hard boiled eggs
I'm female, but my comforable temperature range is about 58 to 68 F. If the temperature gets up into the 70s when I'm trying to sleep, I wake up feeling overheated and heat-sick. And when I go outside, I don't generally bother with socks or long sleeves until it gets down to 65 or so. My husband's temperature comfort range has always been high than mine. I'm really eager for the Northern Hemisphere to get colder weather real soon now.
A couple decades ago I was sharing a place with a friend and we were constantly arguing over whether the thermostat should be set to 73 °F (him) or 75 °F (me)... which he eventually resolved by buying a complicated digital thermostat with a PIN.
You would say a logical solution would have been to agree to 74 whenever you both are in the room, but I must say his way is quite genius 😂
@@christafranken9170 Right? I thought it was at least a little bit unfair, but at the same time, the lease _was_ in his name, so he was kind-of sort-of entitled to final say on things like that? ;3
No battle over the thermostat in my house. I'm dad. I set it where it is supposed to be and it stays there. And no battle at work. It's controlled by corporate, and I am the only one who figured out if you go blow hot/cold air on it every 22 minutes the a/c or heat will stay on.
What do you use to blow cold air? A hair dryer would work for heat.
@@Mike504 haha. Thanks!
When it comes to temperature I always explain it like this: you can always put on more clothes if you're cold, but there's a limit to how much you can take off if you're too hot.
Totally get where you're coming from but work/school dress code can make that so much harder.
Dress codes always allow layers and sweaters, and do not allow going around in just underwear. That's the point. You can put more on. Wr can't take more off.
@@beth8775 It can be really hard to find a coat/jacket that's in the code, that you like, and that's warm enough.
Bethany Lade Impossible in Asia schools. Either wear the exact uniform or your parents are called. My Philippines friend suffers a lot back then since he cant get more clothes to keep warm
Perfect mansplaining.
Thanks to the last summer i do in fact know now:
if the temperature is 32° Celsius and i am naked i still focus mostly on not dying.
My TNZ is apparently about 25-27
By staying as sedentary as possible, so that 32°C remains within the TNZ for your activity level, right?
My parents put a lock on the thermostat so everyone in the house except them has to suffer
Or you could just add or remove a layer of clothing.
Adam Key 😂 you know I'm kidding about the suffering, right?
Didn't know I wanted this answered, but thanks.
Dude. 80 degrees is waaaaay too hot even naked.
Thanks for this episode. I'm going to make my husband watch it! He tries to sneak the thermostat down one or two degrees on a regular basis even though he is always cold; however, he wears several layers of clothing, but I don't wear much in the way of clothes around the house, (just light pajama bottoms), and I am always too hot so I sneak out and turn it back up again! He claims its to save money on the electric bill, but I pay that bill so I think that's pretty lame. However, he is 83 and fairly tall and I'm 64 and short, (not to mention a bit "plump" and diabetic as well), so this all makes sense. It's amazing how much difference a few degrees can make.
In addition to air temperature, clothing, and metabolism, there are more factors affecting comfort, such as: humidity, breeze/wind, direct (sun) light, being wet (from rain or sweat), emotions, hunger, getting a chill (such as from previous exposure to low temperature or a squeaking sound), etc.
Of course, fresh air and oxygen content, and air free of irritants, allergens and things one might be sensitive to and/or distracted by, are also important factors.
Me: clicks on video
Hubby: turns thermostat down
My office gave me the remote to the AC. FOOLS!
This is why i love having experiance working on HVAC systems and wiring buildings, i can just monkey with the thermostat. once borrowed a key from a HVAC contractor friend that unlocks those little plastic guards they put over thermostats, another time i just disabled the wiring to the actually thermometer inside the thermostat so the heat would stop coming on.
I like feeling cold :D
I become nonfunctional if I’m too hot, but still think if the room were cold enough I would still make lower test scores. Being cold really is distracting.
I have had a long standing hypothesis that your temperature preference ( TMZ) is based on were you lived for the first year of your life. I have met many winter kids who love colder rooms and summer folks like me who rather crank up the heat. Of course I have had curveballs . However this video reminded me of that hypothesis and I thought to share.
When it's hot, my thinking doesn't work as well, and my productivity goes way down. There are so many ways to stay warm when the air is cool. Hot drinks, more clothes etc. But there's only so much you can do against heat, and remain clothed enough for it to be socially acceptable. So the consensus should be to err on the side of cooler temperatures.
Anyone who keeps it more than 74 degrees Fahrenheit (aka “room temperature”) is a madman
Anyone who keeps it more than 70 F is a madman!
Mine's at 79 right now, and I'm just barely not chilly.
I let it get up to 80 in the summer and 55 in the winter at home. At work 70 is about the best all around. The people in the offices are a little chilly and people actually working are very warm.
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Why don't you put a sweater on? Heck, you could probably afford to buy cashmere sweaters with all the money you're shoveling into the furnace.
Below 65 makes you a madman too
Something that's sort of relevant: one of the ways your body warms itself up is by increasing your metabolism. For my mum, who had Grave's Disease and no longer has a functional thyroid, that isn't a viable option as her body can only use the daily dose of thyroxine she takes; it can't make any more to increase metabolism and therefore body heat output, so she's basically always cold (yes, she takes the right dosage), and has to wear many, many layers to keep what body heat she does make.
Meanwhile, I'm a little ice gremlin with no heat tolerance to speak of... needless to say, we get along swimmingly! XD
I always wear a light hoodie to work because the area is kept cool. I do the same at home in winter: we open windows and if I'm too cold, I toss on a sweater. The only time I ever have the heater on is when I wake up so I don't go from warm bed to freezing room.
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As a skinny person, i always turn my AC to like 15-19. Under 15 i start feeling really cold, above 20.. well, i start to feel too hot. Then again, i don't even wear much during the cold winters... so who knows what's up with that lol
I suspect the reason you're skinny is that you have a very active metabolism.
WOW this was an informative episode...
I have ME/CFS, & this chronic illness means having the common 'broken-thermostat' symptom of not coping when it's cold or hot. Sometimes when I'm really unwell, I'll feel uncomfortably hot after eating! Also doesn't help that my unit above a shop is old & drafty, & no eaves at all to shade the brick walls from the hot Aussie sun in summer!
You can turn the office temperature up when I'm allowed to wear shorts and jandles.
what are jandles??
Are knee-length skirts considered appropriate? If so, knee-length shorts should also be appropriate.
@@ragnkja Wear a kilt.
@@lyreparadox cheap looking all rubber sandals
@@arthas640 They're the accepted cultural attire of New Zealand thank you very much!
I'm ALWAYS hot! I hate if it's over about 68 degrees inside. People who are cold can add more layers, but people who are too hot can only take so much off and still be decent. Setting the thermostat too high is miserable for us always hot people. I can't work efficiently if I'm sweating just sitting at a desk.
Lioness006 or you could lose weight.
@@katk5205 I've been like this since high school when I was only 145-155 lbs by senior year. And I live in my car rn. I'm kinda limited on what kinds of food I can eat. If I could lose the weight, I would have done it by now but I have chronic pain, chronic fatigue, and exercise-induced asthma along with major depressive disorder, general anxiety, PTSD, insomnia, acid reflux, and other issues. I'm on a lot of meds. A lot of those meds AND the conditions themselves affect weight and appetite, and not in a good way. One medication, gabapentin, caused me to gain like, 40 lbs in 2.5 months! I stopped it, once I realized what was causing it, but only 10 of those pounds came off when I quit taking it. It's not always so simple as just losing weight.
@@Lioness006 Please don't feel like you owe fat-shamers (or anyone else for that matter) details about your medical history or life...and yeah, there are a lot of medications and conditions that affect weight in ways that are counterproductive and make it harder to lose it (I hate prednisone).
Thank you. It's very frustrating. Like, if I could lose the weight, I would have done it by now.
Damn corticosteroids! Even some asthma medications can cause weight issues too. It sucks. But they somehow can't make decent & safe meds to help people lose weight by increasing satiety, reducing appetite, increasing metabolism. With all they know about gherlin, the hunger hormone, you'd think they would be on it.
Lioness006 “people who are cold can add more layers” what about people with sensory issues?
now an episode about the "fresh air fights", please. Back in the days, some of my colleagues were just fine without opening a f window. Ever. And I often get a piece of that experience in different offices, so it is still a popular form of torture
I'm an HVAC engineer from South Africa. We have a very diverse demographic in different offices and it needs to be mentioned that when you have an Indian, an african and a white dude in the same office, it blows my mind how each individual feels the cold differently. The white guys seem to like it cooler whereas the Indian and Black staff like it much...much warmer! Demographics play a major role in office thermostat wars, needless to say, we can't please everyone. If you're cold, put a jacket on. You can't go shirtless.
the only time I fight over the thermostat is when I'm on my period cause I get so damn cold, otherwise I feel like I'm the same as other people unless the temperature is super low or high
55 to 63 is my favorite temperature range
The temperature I have in my house is 22.5 (72.6 F)
As an HVAC technician, I do not need to watch this video to understand there will never be an answer to this conundrum.
Cool explanation.
Yes I peel off my skin during the heats
The thermostats STAYS at 62 DEGREES!
The apartment building I live in now has an ambient temperature of 72F. That's with my unit's heat turned all the way down to 40. I have to leave the bathroom fan on and the windows a little open just to get any kind of coolness over winter. This is another in the list of reasons I will be happy to move back to Minnesota from where I am now in Seattle.
Under 17°C?? That's way too cold! (17°C outside in the shade on a sunny day is different, since I can heat myself up by sitting in the sun.)
That’s freezing
I get cold suuuuuper easily. I tend to say if I’m comfortable at the office, it’s too warm (and yes, I add layers to the point where they make me physically uncomfortable and I’ll still be too cold). For me it really started when I started dieting in high school. I think dieting screwed up something in my internal thermostat and I’ve never been the same since. I went through a couple yo-yos before changing my attitude towards dieting, and that screwed up my metabolism plenty.
My husband and I compensate. I am home during the day, so the AC is off and the heat turns on once it is below 70 F outside (during the day). When he comes home he can turn on the AC or turn down the heat as long as I can steal all the blankets! I have some lovely fluffy blankets and now have a very nice heated throw for this winter. I don't think a heated throw would be approved in an office though.
I like it’ on 75 at night and 73 in the day time my mom screams no it should only be 70 or 68 and she can tell when I change it 😂for that reason it’s always cold in my house but the coldest is her room and downstairs
Yeah, my mom keeps it at 69 at night and only like 70 or 72 during the day. I'm always freezing.
I need the temps under 70 at night to sleep well. But during the day I can deal with temps up to 78 or so, although I do prefer 70 or lower
at 64 during the winter, I'm in just shorts and my wife has a sweatshirt on.
Worth noting that turning up the thermostat in the winter also raises your energy consumption, so it’s always good to balance comfort with environmental concern.
Keep the office cold, it's more cost effective, and Janice can wear a sweater. As far as I know there are no items of clothes I can put on to make myself colder, and you definitely don't want me naked. It's way easier to get warm in a cold enviornment, than it is to get cold in a hot one.
4:53 - I want to mark this section and send it to my former boss. His secretary was always bundled up in the winter and things never went as smoothly, either. Now I have a good reason why.
We'll see how productivity goes when my obese Lycra clad body is in the same office as I try to lose heat and keep some shred of dignity.
Thin cotton would be a lot better than synthetic clothes.
I work in a music venue. Every night, we get probably 5 people complain that it's too cold, and another 5 complaining that it's too warm.
Gosh, I was watching the people up the thermostats on here in horror... 84?? These people need to get up and move the hell around or something. Help your body produce some heat! We live in northern Maine and keep it 65-68 in the main part and colder in the bedroom for the best nights rest possible. My husband is a skinny thing that can't lose weight to save his life and he's fine sept at night where he needs one extra blanket than I do. If you just sit around on your butt, yeah, you're going to end up chillier than you should.
And then there's me hated by everyone putting it at 16
I'll take that temp! Maybe with a sweater and the occasional cup of tea if I'm sitting still, but that's a whole lot better than [checks google] 24.
I'll take 24 everytime.
19 is the most optimal temprature!
Altho 20 is nicer.
24 is just overkill. I don't need to wear a t shirt in winter. Hell at my work it's 21. And because I physically move a lot during it especially. I just wear short sleeves
16C is literally _freezing_ here near the equator lmao.
I'd be happy at 16°F...
It can be so frustrating fighting a thermostat war, but never, never... lose your cool.
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@@leeseoul5735 Thanks ^_^
Women's conventional officewear can be modified for the season and is generally more loosely defined. Men's conventional officewear, on the other hand, absolutely sucks for summertime and warmer environments in general.
Just thought I'd point that out.
I have the opposite. I get sweaty all the time even in chilly temperatures while talking, eating or in general if I feel someone is watching me. Guess how that goes in work environments.
When people complain about being cold, I say wear more layers. You can always put more on, but there's only so much you can remove legally in public...
Thank you! Exactly!
But I can't type or use a pen when my hands are stiff and white, or I'm wearing gloves. Putting on more layers often just means I'm hot and sweaty in my clothes but my hands are still useless and my nose is still running from the cold.
Though I do also resent not being able to take off the pressure socks in summer ;) Vascular issues are fun!
I mean, in general, you're *right*, but it's frustrating for those of us who are anomalies.
@@TiaKatt Try working in a warehouse in the winter. Space heaters don't help, gloves don't work, wearing too many layers doesn't work bc you get overheated & sweaty when you start moving around, and your hands, face, ears, & nose are frozen. But that's a huge difference compared to what people in most offices deal with. I highly doubt your hands are frozen & stiff and your nose is running if it's 65 degrees inside vs 72 degrees. But for someone who is too hot, that 7 degrees can be the difference between sweating and being reasonably comfortable.
@@TiaKatt try knit gloves. They are cheap & a thin layer. I have vascular issues along with fibromyalgia so my fingers are always cold no matter what & they always hurt. I started wearing knit gloves layered under arthritis compression gloves and it solved both problems. They also both fit under my Isotoners in the winter, so the only annoyance was how often I had to take them off to go pee, which was a separate issue, lol! They even have knit gloves with touch screen fingers.
Now I know why my dad has supernatural powers
Ugh. Everyday at work someone complains it's too hot or too cold. After so many disputes over the temperature, engineering disabled the thermostat in the office. Now the hot folks bring a fan and the cold folks bring a sweater as it should be. 🤷🏾♀️
You can put on a jacket/sweater to get warmer, you can't do anything to become colder.
Mr. Krabs keeps his thermostat at 62 degrees although Squidward wants it at a toasty 63. It's for the time he sold SpongeBob's soul for 62 cents
That scene always bugged me; it doesn't even make monetary sense to set the thermostat that low, because energy is needed to cool the restaurant. Yes, heat costs money, but so does coldness! If Krabe really wanted to save money, he would have totally removed the thermostat.
65-70 is perfect personality
Dr. Spatula 20 is okay, I would literally die in 65-70
@@FritMaCZ I'm Murican. 20°F I'm pretty content at too. Tshirt and shorts weather stops around 0°F(-18°C) depending on wind and snow depth
Nah, I prefer 70 Kelvin
@@CarthagoMike Correction: 70 Kelvins. Kelvins are an absolute unit and therefore not degrees.
@@CarthagoMike oh man that's close to the melting point of Oxygen, Oof
This is my new favorite guy btw
Hahaha! I’ve been on a 40 hour road trip with my entire family- we were JUST arguing over the ac temperature.
It’s too stuffy in this car.
I mean yeah we're all human ... hahahaha ... right my fellow humans >.> ...
Mr. Krabs: Do not. touch. the THERMOSTAT!!!!
One thing not touched on that I’m sure goes without saying, I would imagine where you are from can have a large effect on your temperature comfort level. Living in Minnesota where half of the year could be considered “cold” to some, with a a chunk of that being legitimately very cold, my comfort level is pretty low, with the temp in the 60s being my overall favorite temperature. Obviously it depends on what you want to do, but the fall cool air is when I’m most comfortable. For instance it’s 52 degrees right now, and it feels amazing being outside.
There is also an important factor. Your location in the room. If you are close the thermostat or directly on the path of the airflow of the air conditioner you will feel it more.