How to win the battle for air conditioning

1. Measure the temperature

Personal feelings are a very conditional way to determine whether you are comfortable in the office. In this case, there is a regulation that determines at what temperature you should work. According to the regulations, office workers are required to sit at a computer at a temperature of 22-24 ° C in winter and 23-25 ° C in summer.

Taking into account the permissible deviations in the office, it can be 20-25 ° C in winter and 21-28 ° C in summer.

According to the rules, in an office with an area of up to 100 sq. m temperature is measured in four zones. But to resolve an everyday conflict, two thermometers will be enough: next to the coldest and most grilled employees. So, firstly, you can determine the fairness of the complaints. Perhaps someone manages to freeze already at 23 ° C. Secondly, you will have to turn on and off the air conditioner, focusing on objective indicators.

2. Arrange a vote

If there are more than three people in the office, let the majority decide the fate of the air conditioner. Even for the losers of the battle, such an alignment will look offensive, but fair.

3. Use logic

When it's cold, you can get dressed. As a rule, there is nothing to take off from oneself in the heat. Based on this, it would be logical for the frozen people to keep a warm jacket and socks in a drawer.

4. Rearrange

It happens that monitors melt from the heat in the office, but someone alone removes the icicles from the nose. There is a possibility that the table of this person is simply unsuccessfully located and is located directly under the air conditioner.

When your keyboard is blown off the table by a stream of icy air, it's hard not to freeze.

But the problem will be solved if you work your head and hands before the summer season. Move around and rearrange the tables so that no one is in the affected area. Or put your most sultry colleague there.

True, it happens that a person refuses to change his place. In this case, the only option is to glare at him until he gets warm and asks to turn on the air conditioner himself.

5. Turn on the air conditioner in advance

When the office is large, it takes time for the cold air to reach every corner. The easiest way to do this is if the office is empty and the air conditioner is running at maximum.

To achieve this, you can agree with the management that employees will take turns coming and going half an hour or an hour earlier. Each of them will turn on the air conditioner and wait for colleagues in a pre-cooled office. Then during the day it will be enough just to maintain a comfortable temperature.

6. Take breaks

Make a rule: at the end of each hour, all the inhabitants of the office get up and go out for 5 minutes. At this time, the air conditioner, without blowing anyone away, cools the room to the minimum comfortable temperature (it is best to be guided by the thermometer).

With this approach, everyone will be fine, but not at the same time: hot employees will spend the beginning of the hour in comfort, and the freezing ones will get warmer towards the end.

7. Get a separate office

The method is slow, but effective: you can try your best to get a promotion and move to your own office. In this case, you will become the sole master of the air conditioner. As a nice bonus - an increase in wages.

8. Use trickery

It is better not to solve the problem in this way, because if everything is revealed, you will make yourself a lot of enemies. However, the very thought of an insidious option, saved for last, is capable of warming, or rather, cooling.

We are talking about buying a universal remote control for an air conditioner. When the device is already on, it will be easy to cool the air supplied by the unit by 2-3 ° C directly from its place. The main thing in this business is to find out in advance how to turn off the soundtrack of temperature changes.