Ravica Blog » ideal office temperature http://www.ravica.com/blog Environmental monitoring solutions that just work Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:32:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Ideal office temperature http://www.ravica.com/blog/sensorprobes/ideal-office-temperature/ http://www.ravica.com/blog/sensorprobes/ideal-office-temperature/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:32:38 +0000 Mike Allen http://www.ravica.com/blog/?p=146 It has been very cold in our office lately despite temperatures of over 70 degrees outside.  Check out this picture I took last week:
Ravica office temp

Seems like an awful waste of energy doesn’t it? What is the ideal office temperature?

We decided to move one of the BitSight temperature and humidity sensors to our work area:

Ravica office temperature

We used Denika Performance Trender to monitor the SNMP OIDs on the device.  Take a look at these temperature fluctuations. Crazy!

office temperature trend

Cornell University did a study on this topic and found that warm offices lead to fewer typing errors and higher productivity. I’ll have to show this article to the boss.  :)

- Mike

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