Not having control over the thermostat makes the temperature of the room know so much worse… At work, there is a single thermostat that controls the space that I labor in with more than 2 other people, and don’t get myself and others wrong, the space is amazing and it’s comfortable for all of us to be working together under 1 roof.
There are also a ton of other things that are available to us throughout the day that make where I labor fantastic.
For example, there’s an unlimited tea bar with a barista 24/7 that’s there to keep almost everyone caffeinated and productive. The only thing I don’t love about my office space is the thermostat settings. There are 2 people in the entire building who are able to change the temperature and they rarely do. In fact, I know the only time they touch the thermostat settings are in the Spring and the fall when they have to make the manual switch between the and oil furnace. I don’t know I’d love the temperature setting as much if I could really change it myself, but there’s something so aggravating about not having any control at all. The temperature setting is something that almost everyone in the office is always complaining about and I’ve come to realize that it’s because there’s nothing else to complain about. If all of us could change the temperature, I know most of us would end up increasing it to the same or a similar temperature anyway. It’s the same concept of wanting what you can’t have.