{"id":369,"date":"2008-08-19T08:52:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T23:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2008-08-19T08:52:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T23:52:21","slug":"temperature-and-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Temperature and productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Tokyo daytime temperatures in their 30&#8217;s, working is becoming a drag. Especially going out. There is obviously a relationship between temperature and productivity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/releases\/Oct04\/temp.productivity.ssl.html\" target=\"_blank\">This study <\/a>from the Cornel University suggests that in the winter raising the temperature to a more comfortable thermal zone saves employers about $2 per worker, per hour. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osti.gov\/bridge\/servlets\/purl\/813396-hZB8LT\/native\/813396.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this study<\/a> by Olli Seppanen concludes that an average of 2% decrement in work performance per degree Celsius temperature, rise when the temperature is above 25\u00c2\u00b0C. The problem really with air conditioned indoor spaces is to find a proper temperature balance, as there is a difference between <a href=\"perceived versus actual temperature\" target=\"_blank\">perceived temperature versus actual temperature<\/a>. Someone coming from outside might perceive an indoor space rather cold while someone already in the space might find the space rather hot. In addition to the heat, the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cool_Biz_campaign\" target=\"_blank\">Cool Biz<\/a>&#8221; campaign by the Japanese Ministry of Environment aimed at getting people to remove their neckties and jackets, seems according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/category\/kuchikomi\/view\/young-women\u2019s-summer-fashions-show-too-much-poll-reveals\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">this<\/a> article in Japan Today to have another effect:<\/p>\n<p>Each week at a section on its website called \u201caspara club,\u201d\u009d the Asahi Shimbun polls some 8,000 registered \u201cbe monitors.\u201d\u009d The results then appear each Saturday in the print edition\u2019s supplement, in a department called \u201cbe between.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question for the July 26 edition was, \u201cDo you feel women\u2019s summer garb is too extreme?\u201d\u009d Of the 4,361 valid responses, 80% replied in the affirmative. Of these, nearly equal numbers objected to flashing of too much skin (2,189 responses) and allowing undergarments or navel to be exposed (2,011 responses).<\/p>\n<p>Asked which garments were unsuitable to be worn at the workplace, 3,320 respondents named camisoles\u201d\u201dwhich originally functioned as an undergarment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing women nonchalantly wearing something that looks like underwear is really unpleasant,\u201d\u009d a 67-year-old Tokyoite tells Asahi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?xml=\/money\/2008\/08\/13\/bcnjapan213.xml\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Japan&#8217;s flirt with recession<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0merely a side effect of the high temperatures? \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Tokyo daytime temperatures in their 30&#8217;s, working is becoming a drag. Especially going out. There is obviously a relationship between temperature and productivity. This study from the Cornel University suggests that in the winter raising the temperature to a more comfortable thermal zone saves employers about $2 per worker, per hour. And this study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}