
Icy Room Temperatures May Chill Productivity

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Scientist: Office climates are optimized for a hypothetical roomful of forty year old, hundred and 50 pound men using standards developed more than 50 years ago. If you went from lhats, say the low sixties, to the mid seventies, you saw an increase in female performance of almost 15%. But men, on the other hand, had a small decrease in performance, about three %, as temperatures rose to the mid Seventies.
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