There’s a reason your office air conditioner is always blasting, and it’s not because of an over-heated co-worker. Almost 90 years ago, someone defined “metabolic equivalents”—the energy a body requires while sitting, walking and running—based off the frame of a 40-year-old, 155-pound man. And since then, that number has been powering air conditioning calculations (and freezing many women) all over the world. Now, researchers are …
Why Offices are so Cold
