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Report: Some Office Thermostats Are Fakes
Expert: Devices Used To Give Employees Feeling Of Control Or Shut Them Up
POSTED: 2:20 p.m. EST January 15, 2003
UPDATED: 4:45 p.m. EST January 15, 2003
If you're too cold, or too hot, at the office, you can always adjust the
thermostat, right?
Maybe. If you have access to it.
But it turns out that even if a thermostat is within reach, it may be a
fake.
The Wall Street Journal quoted air conditioning experts in Wednesday's
editions as saying a lot of office thermostats aren't connected to
anything.
They're just there to give employees a feeling of control and perhaps to
shut them up about how hot or cold it is.
Sometimes the employer who's leasing office space doesn't even know the
thermostat is a fake. Other times, it's the employer who arranges for it.
One specialist in Illinois estimated that 90 percent of office
thermostats are dummies -- although others say the figure is less than 2
percent. He said that sooner or later, you just get tired of the
complaints and just attach a phony thermostat.
"They quit calling you," he said.
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