Spring has sprung... but...

Health and Safety is a funny thing in the UK. We don't define an upper limit for the office temperature. Instead we crowd source and use Thermal Comfort as an indicator. This basically means that as long as under 20% of the population are moaning, nobody gives a crap. However, paraphrasing from the HSE website:

• People working in uncomfortably hot and cold environments are more likely to behave unsafely;
• The workers' ability to concentrate on a given task may start to drop off and increases the risk of errors occurring;
• The problems [with adapting to the thermal environment] arise when this choice (to remove jacket, or move away from heat source) is removed, and people are no longer able to adapt.

Twenty years in the explaining

One of my claims to fame is that I have code running on computers in, on, under and orbiting the earth as well as leaving the solar system and scattered in millions of bits on Mars. You've heard all the rumours about the temperature in outer space going from minus 200 degrees in the shade to 200 degrees in the sun, well the gold stuff wrapping equipment that leaves the earth is used to reflect a load of the heat radiation so as to help keep the circuitry cooler (Allegedly).