I really doubt this idea, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the truth was completely the opposite. Since people in high-latitude environments are left with relatively few days with pleasant weather, they cannot efficiently schedule their fun outdoor activities. Here in the northern Midwest, the first nice day of spring (or the occasional unseasonably warm day in fall) often has many people taking time off on a weekday, and the people who do show up can’t get much done with so many unplanned absences. Meetings are cancelled, etc. If the weather was not a factor, people could schedule their fun time more efficiently (i.e. weekends, slow periods at work, etc.)
In this grey lowlight world of English weather, with the added factor that by and large interaction between anglophones is mostly linguistic, it is not admirable that many come to office even on Saturdays and Sundays, and also stay late during weekdays. Basically, where else would they go?
This is entirely wrong. The bleak winter season doesn’t make people more likely to work, it makes them more likely to want to curl up inside and eat. Basically Seasonal Affective Disorder seems to be an adaptation, encouraging people toward lethargy and energy conservation during winter.
The bleak winter season doesn’t make people more likely to work, it makes them more likely to want to curl up inside and eat.
It’s not like the torrid summer season makes people more likely to work, either. (And the range of temperatures at which it’s neither too cold nor too hot to work probably varies a lot from person to person.)
It’s not like the torrid summer season makes people more likely to work, either. (And the range of temperatures at which it’s neither too cold nor too hot to work probably varies a lot from person to person.)
This misses the point, since most tropical places don’t have terribly hot summers either. The main feature of tropical climate is low variation and year long warmth. For example São Paulo’s warmest month is February, with an average high of 82 degrees Fahrenheit. Minneapolis, North America’s coldest big city, has a July average high of 83. The interseason spread is about 60 degrees for Minneapolis and 11 degrees for Sao Paulo. So summertime heat in the tropics is not at all comparable.
I really doubt this idea, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the truth was completely the opposite. Since people in high-latitude environments are left with relatively few days with pleasant weather, they cannot efficiently schedule their fun outdoor activities. Here in the northern Midwest, the first nice day of spring (or the occasional unseasonably warm day in fall) often has many people taking time off on a weekday, and the people who do show up can’t get much done with so many unplanned absences. Meetings are cancelled, etc. If the weather was not a factor, people could schedule their fun time more efficiently (i.e. weekends, slow periods at work, etc.)
This is entirely wrong. The bleak winter season doesn’t make people more likely to work, it makes them more likely to want to curl up inside and eat. Basically Seasonal Affective Disorder seems to be an adaptation, encouraging people toward lethargy and energy conservation during winter.
It’s not like the torrid summer season makes people more likely to work, either. (And the range of temperatures at which it’s neither too cold nor too hot to work probably varies a lot from person to person.)
This misses the point, since most tropical places don’t have terribly hot summers either. The main feature of tropical climate is low variation and year long warmth. For example São Paulo’s warmest month is February, with an average high of 82 degrees Fahrenheit. Minneapolis, North America’s coldest big city, has a July average high of 83. The interseason spread is about 60 degrees for Minneapolis and 11 degrees for Sao Paulo. So summertime heat in the tropics is not at all comparable.