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"...Cornell University psychological scientist Alan Hedge determined that workers are more efficient when they’re warm...women were significantly more productive when their office was kept at a warmer temperature.
At 77° F (25° C), the women were typing 100% of the time with a 10% error rate. But, when the temperature dipped to a cool 68° F (20° C), typing rates plummeted and error rates rose to 25%...comfortable thermal zone saves employers about $2 per worker, per hour,” says Hedge.
Overall, Hedge and colleagues estimated that companies could save up to 12.5% of their wage costs per worker by raising the temperature a few degrees...
A new study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that women’s average metabolic rate is 20 to 32 percent lower than this; a finding that helps explain why there’s so much grumbling about frigid offices." - PsycologyScience.Org
"...the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, took 543 German college students, put them in a room and made them take tests at different temperatures — ranging from as low as 61 degrees to as high as 91 degrees.
The study showed a difference in performance between men and women depending on the temperature.
As the temp went up, women did better on math and verbal tasks, and men did worse," Chang says. "And the increase for women in math and verbal tasks was much larger and more pronounced than the decrease in performance of men."
In other words, the warmer the room, the better the women did on the tests overall. Our research says that even if as a business you only care about profit and productivity, you should take the comfort of your workers into account, as it will affect the bottom line"
NPR's Audrey Nguyen and Lynn Kim produced and edited this story for broadcast. Wynne Davis produced it for digital - NPR.ORG
In the summer months, rates tend to be increased during business hours; winter times may see rate increases also which is one reason that office managers may keep temperatures lower while employees are at work.
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Laser and inkjet printers may look the same on the outside, but it is what’s on the inside that counts.
Typically this is a complex process involving separate stages. It requires preheating the fuser, and again uses heat to fuse the toner to the paper.
This method is comprised of only three stages to achieve a printout.
Within inkjet printers, there are two main technologies: thermal inkjet, which uses heat, and Piezo Inkjet, which is Heat-Free.
This technology applies an electrical current to warm the ink to fire it through the printhead.
This does not require heat in the ink ejection process. Instead, pressure is applied to the Piezo element, which flexes backwards and forwards firing the ink from the printhead.
Heat-Free Technology requires no heat to warm up when it is switched on or awoken from sleep. This means printing starts immediately.
Heat-Free Technology has low power consumption because it does not use heat to warm up. Inkjets have no fuse unit to heat.
Laser printers typically have more consumables and require periodic replacement of the drum, transfer belt and fuse in many cases. Thanks to Heat-Free Technology, our inkjet printers use fewer parts that need replacing.
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The Heat-Free structure of Epson inkjet printers means that there are fewer parts that can fail, which reduces the amount of intervention required.
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References
Hedge, A., Sakr, W., & Agarwal, A. (2005, September). Thermal effects on office productivity. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 823-827). SAGE Publications.
IJzerman, H., & Semin, G. R. (2009). The thermometer of social relations mapping social proximity on temperature. Psychological Science, 20(10), 1214-1220. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02434.x
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