That first links seems to suggest that only 30% of workers have this drop in productivity. If you’re going on only a statistical argument, that means that $240 * 30% chance means about $72 lost. This seems to alter your numbers drastically. This also seems to suggest a high VOI to measuring your productivity and plotting that against heat, to see if you’re in the 30%.
If you dig deeper into the first link, you’ll find these numbers which indicate that the productivity loss increases as a function of the temperature increase: “In addition to the prevalence of productivity loss, seven studies reported precise changes in productivity as a function of environmental heat stress. These studies suggest an average 2.6% productivity decline (individual study estimates: 0.8%, 1.4%, 1.8%, 2.2%, 2.8%, 4.4%, 5.0%) for every degree increase beyond 24°C WBGT.”
Still, I’m all for running an experiment to check how much your personal productivity responds to temperature! Individual variance might be high here.
Am I reading this wrong? It seems like the meta study is suggestion that the linear productivity decline applies to the 30% of workers who experience a productivity drop due to heat.
I interpreted it as overall average productivity drop, which makes sense since I wouldn’t expect most people to report productivity losses at the lower end of this scale (75°F). Rereading it, my interpretation still seems more likely, but it’s not totally clear which one the authors meant.
That first links seems to suggest that only 30% of workers have this drop in productivity. If you’re going on only a statistical argument, that means that $240 * 30% chance means about $72 lost. This seems to alter your numbers drastically. This also seems to suggest a high VOI to measuring your productivity and plotting that against heat, to see if you’re in the 30%.
If you dig deeper into the first link, you’ll find these numbers which indicate that the productivity loss increases as a function of the temperature increase: “In addition to the prevalence of productivity loss, seven studies reported precise changes in productivity as a function of environmental heat stress. These studies suggest an average 2.6% productivity decline (individual study estimates: 0.8%, 1.4%, 1.8%, 2.2%, 2.8%, 4.4%, 5.0%) for every degree increase beyond 24°C WBGT.”
Still, I’m all for running an experiment to check how much your personal productivity responds to temperature! Individual variance might be high here.
Am I reading this wrong? It seems like the meta study is suggestion that the linear productivity decline applies to the 30% of workers who experience a productivity drop due to heat.
I interpreted it as overall average productivity drop, which makes sense since I wouldn’t expect most people to report productivity losses at the lower end of this scale (75°F). Rereading it, my interpretation still seems more likely, but it’s not totally clear which one the authors meant.