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.
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.