Do You Feel Cold In Office?

Since Malaysia is a temperate country, most of us cannot do without an air-conditioner. Almost all offices are equipped with air-cond. If it is a centralized system, where there are air-cond outlet place at certain distance from each other, the office tends to become very cold and to make it worse, there is no way to adjust the temperature at each individual outlet. Either you make you own diversion plate, or make do with the current condition.

In an article in fastcompany.com, there was an interesting findings from Cornell University research that employees of an insurance company committed 44% more errors when the room temperature was reduced to 20 deg Celsius from 25 deg Celsius. This goes to show that we need to pay attention to the workplace temperature if we want to achieve higher productivity because when we are hit by coldness, we tend to do things more slowly (based on personal experience).

When the surrounding is cold, the parts that are further from the brain such as fingers and toes will become cold. Hence, taking care of the head is important and this can be done by putting on a cap and taking cold.


Apparently, ladies are more prone to coldness and they are more likely to be seen wearing jacket or scarf to keep them warm. In Chinese medicine point of view, it is best that the body is at warmer temperature for health benefit.