What do you think is the right temperature for an office to be heated to in winter?

[vezzie]

Please answer in centigrade / celsius as I am farenheit-challenged

thank you

19 degrees?

and lol at 'farenheit-challenged' - me too!

18

19 degrees

I think the guidelines say 21-23 degrees.

16/17

What? You people are crazy. Do you KNOW how cold that is? 16 degrees? That's freezing. In an office, at 16% I'd be wearing two jumpers!

18 or 19

The minimum is 16 (legally) check out here. There's no maximum though, but where the environment is hot for a specific reason steps legally have to be taken by the employer to minimise the heat as much as possible.

Good luck if you're trying to fight your employers though - Last summer I was working in a coffee shop where it was as much as 40+dC behind the bar and when I complained it get laughed off. Thankfully I was leaving shortly, but I was really angry. Wish I had known more about the legal side at the time!

People here fluff up their pashiminas resentfully and mutter darkly at around 22 - they want it around 25, apparently. I am (up the duff, and) melting! Are we trashing the planet so that sloanes do't have to wear jumpers? It is January!

25 is a lot!! I'd be melting too...

Every office I've worked in has been heated to tropical temperatures.
My work clothes consist of trousers with thin, short sleeved tops which I wear all year round. I am always surrounded by people in multiple big cardis who complain about the draught.
I then go home and pile on the jumpers because my house is only about 22C.

Dreading the menopause and hot flushes.

20-21 if it is the kind of office where you sit for most of the day

Now, I keep my house relatively cool, but would want an office to be about 20 as I would not be wearing my fleece there like I do at home.

I cannot type if it's below about 22. My fingers turn white and blue and hurt.

Our office thermometer says 19 degrees but there is no way on earth that it is (my house is only heated to 16 degrees and the office seems miles colder). Last week I had to work in a borrowed fleece, a scarf and some fingerless gloves.

Yesterday I was so cold that I had to go home, wrap up in the fur throw from my bed and vegetate with a cup of tea for an hour just to thaw out.

Its an old public sector building with aluminium windows and crap heating.

Wish I could win the lottery

The minum tempreture is 18 degrees.

They seem to aim for 23.

But it varies wildly to try and achieve that, blasting out cold to 20, then hot to 27 (which is uncomfortable if you do anything but sit very still).