I remember when we were in the old space the boss would set the temperature to what he felt was optimum and we all just had to deal with it.
For the past eight months I have been able to work from home and I will not be happy about returning to the office. The company decided to relocate to a new facility that was being built downtown so they wanted to save money and not renew the lease on the previous location. The money they saved on rent more than covered the cost of setting all of the call center employees up at home to work remotely. Now, the new facility is ready to occupy and we all have to go back to commuting to the office Monday through Friday. No more working in my sweatpants, taking coffee breaks without asking someone, and best of all having full control over the temperature of my workspace. I can turn on the air conditioning if I am too warm and the heat if I am too cold. No one has the power to control the settings on my HVAC system and I don’t have to ask to adjust the thermostat. I remember when we were in the old space the boss would set the temperature to what he felt was optimum and we all just had to deal with it. We were not allowed to bring in portable heaters to keep us warmer or fans to keep us cool. It will be nice to have others to talk to during the day but the actual job atmosphere I am sure will be just like before. The boss will still be in control of the HVAC system and we will not have any say in the matter.