Poll: thermostat wars
Castanet - Jul 25, 2019 / 7:30 pm | Story: 262141
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A new study from BC Hydro finds office air conditioning may cool the workplace, but can also lead to heated arguments.
Hydro says 25 per cent of those asked say office temperature has prompted disagreements between co-workers.
The use of air conditioning in commercial buildings has increased by almost one-third since 2006, while its study says as many as two-thirds of the 500 people questioned report they can't access the thermostat or lack permission to change the settings.
Of those, Hydro says 60 per cent — most of them women — find office temperatures are so low that they have trouble working, requiring them to regularly use a blanket or other layers to fend off the chill.
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