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UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C
(www.theguardian.com)
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Wait, yall work in offices at 86F? What is wrong with you guys? Why do you guys have so many problems with AC? People are dying because you guys havent figured a 100 year old invention yet?
Y'all got windows though right? You could throw some portables in.
I would consider not having heat stroke a health and safety concern.
Fucking hell, I knew the UK had issues, but thats just fucked up.
Probably half the offices I've worked at had no AC at all. One job I had moved to a new building that didn't have AC, they spent a fortune installing it, then were required to remove it when they vacated the building a few years later.
Really? I've never worked on an office without AC. Maybe I've just worked in posh offices
Thats absurd. People die without AC, wtf is wrong with the brits?
There are many old buildings, and historically it hasn't often been warm enough to make air conditioning worth it. But the climate is getting warmer now.
If you're also an American, as looks to be the case from your comments, Europe has more-moderate extreme temperatures than parts of the US do; most of it is near water, which helps moderate temperature, and it has few arid places. The UK, which is an archipeligo, particularly so.
There are some places in Europe where air conditioning is more common than others, but overall, it's much less common in homes than in the US.
EDIT: UK heat records:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_weather_records
The hottest temperature record there would be a pretty ordinary summer temperature in some of the hotter parts of the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_territory_temperature_extremes
Not going to put them all up, but a sampling of the top ones:
Just hasn't generally been the case that the need for air conditioning is as strong.
Basically 30 years ago it was very seldom needed. It's almost as if ... oh, I don't know, the climate is changing.
It's all part of growing up and being British!
But theres no reason to. Why would guys not do basic stuff? Hell, even in America OSHA gets involved past 80f/27c
So what gives?
Lack of air conditioners in UK state schools makes them unbearable places in the Summer.