Office thermostats have a special place
in corporate culture. They were parodied in an episode of "The Office," and
a scientific study of office temperatures and gender went viral last year,
leading to a story in The New
York Times.
Now the world's most valuable public
company is taking a stand.
In honor of late founder Steve
Jobs, Apple's new campus will avoid air conditioning, fans and
open windows to regulate temperature, according to a new feature in Wired.
That means the temperature will vary from 68 degrees to 77 degrees, Wired
reported this week.
Here's how it works: The ring-shaped
building circulates outside air, and a concrete floor is heated or cooled with
tubes of water when the temperature outside fluctuates outside the desired
range, according to Wired. Workers have only 1 or 2 degrees to play with inside
their offices, Wired reported.
"We don't want you to feel like
you're in a casino," Apple executive
Lisa Jackson told Wired."We want you to know what time of day it is, what
temperature it is outside. Is the wind really blowing? That was Steve's
original intention, to sort of blur that line between the inside and outside.
It sort of wakes up your senses."
The Apple Campus 2 is seen under construction in Cupertino,
California in this aerial photo taken January 13, 2017.
The Apple Campus 2 is seen under construction in Cupertino, California in this aerial photo taken January 13, 2017. |
It's all part of a carefully crafted, 2.8 million-square-foot new
building that's been years, and billions of dollars, in the making. The
175-acre Cupertino campus, Apple Park, will be filled with 12,000 people this
summer, Apple said.
The temperature inside the offices may go where the wind takes it.
But Wired reports that most of Apple's campus reflects the company's
detail-oriented approach to device design, from the fonts above the elevators
to the hand rails.
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