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Frozen workers make more errors and are less productive, according to Alan Hedge, professor of design and environmental analysis and director of Cornell’s Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory, who studied office temperatures about a decade ago.

Compared to men drenched in sweat because they are expected to dress in a suit all year round? Even in an informal office acceptable men clothing (shorts slightly above the knees and a t-shirt) covers up a higher percentage of the body and is tighter than the acceptable clothing for women (a short sundress).

Unless men are allowed to come to work in a nice pair of shorts and a short-sleeved shirt, then how can they be blamed for feeling warmer than women in sundresses? Men in the professional world are encouraged to wear pants, collared shirts, and oftentimes suits and ties. With these expectations, it is no wonder that they require a cooler environment to avoid overheating. As others have already written, someone can generally put on more layers if they feel too cold, but there is a limit to how many layers someone can take off if they feel too warm.

I'm really tempted to call BS on this. I have a difficult time wrapping my head around this being a gender issue rather than an individual physiology issue. Perhaps females are more prone to being cold, but I have seen enough of the opposite to question if that's the reality of the situation. Now, I don't work in an office environment, but I do work where we don't have control over the facilities' temperature. Usually, if one person is miserable, most are miserable regardless of gender. Side note, my wife would LOVE to be frozen, I'm more a 'comfortable at 80°' type of guy.

Funny story, I knew a guy who was the facilities manager of a bowling alley, and would CONSTANTLY get hounded to adjust the temperature. He solved the problem by mounting thermostats on the walls behind every fourth lane. When he got asked to adjust the temperature, he'd just point out the thermostats and let the bowlers have their way. Didn't bother telling them that they weren't hooked up. Nobody ever noticed.

This can't come soon enough!

It's...hard to tell if this article is satire or not. Being in Texas, I don't think I've been in any building in the summer that could be described as cold and more often hear complaints from men in suits who sweat like a dog in them (necessitating lots of hydration and undershirts to stay cool) than women from how cold it is. I guess things may be different in Washington, though the few places I've worked had a thermostat that wasn't allowed to go above or below a pretty small temperature range, so it rarely mattered who controlled it.

Even if this is a gendered issue, why can't the men wear shorts? I've never seen a model for business attire that includes men wearing shorts or some pieces of clothing that were cooler. Instead of calling this a sexism issue and blaming men, why don't we change the fashion acceptability so that men can be in cooler clothing at the workplace. No need for anyone to suffer being too hot or too cold.

If men could wear shirts to work similar to women in a sundress, perhaps there would be less problems. American culture doesnt allow that however.