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I work for a startup in Silicon Valley (hiring devs btw). I work from home most days because the drive from Los Gatos to Menlo Park is a nightmare. Tee and jeans are the normal dress code or track suites if you are one of our Easten European coders. ;) I go to Asia a lot on business. I am sit in Tokyo right now, in a suite and tie. I have a closet full. Only place I have to wear them - NYC, London and Tokyo. Oh well. Bespoke of course ;)

The subway sucks in a suite in the summer in Tokyo. Also they have a mandate to reduce energy hardcore after the earthquake so the AC is set at 28C the offices.

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28c in the offices in a rich industrialized country? I wonder how much productivity they loose because of that.

if it's 35-40 outside you don't wanna collapse when you step outside, just because inside office you had 20-21, which actually means free degrees less since temperature sensor is usually on unit at ceiling with hot air

> which actually means free degrees less since

I see what you did that.

I'm not sure if you meant that, though.

this is 100% anecdotal. But I got the impression that you get used to it rather fast if the climate is consistently hot for a while.

Source: I got used to Bangkok's climate in a month and happily worked with a fan only, without AC

How?

My countersource is that I didn't get used to it at all (several years) and seemingly neither of my co workers have either. The days when AC is off in the office, well it's pretty much empty.

I've been enduring 28-degree Tokyo for a decade. You never get used to it.

I agree. I am here for a week a month for about the last 10 years. I think it would be possiable to get used to it if you did not have to wear a suite and tie!

My guess is you are not in a suite and tie?

Mostly naked. My point is just that I did not feel my productivity die from heat alone after a while

"28c in the offices in a rich industrialized country? I wonder how much productivity they loose because of that."

A lot. The 28-degree "standard" has in fact been in place since 2005, when introduced by now-Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike who spent her younger years in Egypt, and has spread from government offices to almost the entire nation. In winter there is no corresponding artificially-low indoor temperature; if anything, they tend to keep it at 25-26 or more.

Total victory for the warm-blooded lizards and total misery for us hairy folk.

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