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Re:Baby it's cold inside, especially for women in offices by BobbyJo on Monday December 13, 2021 @11:42AM (#29541226)
> One thing that works great for me at home is, compromising on a temperature with my partner such that we're both physically comfortable throughout the day.

Finding an intersection of two preferences is much easier than finding one with 30+ preferences. Me and my wife are extreme opposites but manage to keep the house comfortable for both of us thanks to having our own offices. If we had to share one...

In a lot of circumstances, an office can shuffle people around and modify the HVAC settings to get most people comfortable, but getting everyone comfortable is rare. I think the fundamental point the parent was trying to make is: given that outliers will exist, which end of the spectrum is preferable? There are many more tools to deal with being too cold than there are with being too hot.

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Re:Baby it's cold inside, especially for women in offices by k8si on Monday December 13, 2021 @11:58AM (#29541417)
Sure, but in my office and a lot of the others I have worked in, either a) no one was ever too hot, but many people were too cold or b) the HVAC was old/terrible s.t. that everyone was either way too hot or way too cold. My dream is for everyone to just be a little bit miserable together.
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