Not having control over the thermostat makes the temperature of the room suppose so much worse, and at work, there is a single thermostat that controls the space that I work in with numerous other people.
- Don’t get me wrong, the space is amazing & 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 work fantastic. For example, there’s an unlimited pop bar with a barista 24/7 that’s there to keep all the people caffeinated & productive. The only thing I don’t love about our office space is the thermostat settings. There are numerous people in the entire building who are able to change the temperature & they rarely do. In fact, I suppose the only time they touch the thermostat settings are in the Springtime & the fall when they have to make the manual switch between the air conditioner & gas furnace. I don’t suppose I’d love the temperature setting as much if I could actually change it myself, but there’s something so discouraging about not having any control at all. The temperature setting is something that all the people in the office is consistently complaining about & I’ve come to realize that it’s because there’s nothing else to complain about. If both of us could change the temperature, I suppose most of us would end up decreasing it to the same or a similar temperature anyway. It’s the same concept of wanting what you can’t have.