Archive for October, 2011

Productivity Advantages of Improved Temperature at Workplace

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

A comfortable working environment is all what is necessary to make employees more productive. Actually, some studies found that there’s a continuous and active relation from a person’s productivity and his surroundings. The levels of discomfort and annoyance at work environment like extreme heat/cold surroundings, noise, poor lighting, may directly affect the performance and productivity from the employee. In the following paragraphs, we will have the way the workplace temperature affects employee productivity. We’ll also discuss about the advantages of improved temperature.

In several offices thermal the weather is not well controlled

In many commercial buildings, thermal the weather is not controlled properly because of insufficient cooling or heating capacity, high external and internal loads, improper control system and many other factors. Since the thermal conditions within the buildings vary based on the outside conditions, there is a need to maintain them based on the comfort, such method in which the modification does not affect the worker productivity.

Too warm – occupants feel tired: Too warm temperatures at the workplace helps make the employees feel exhausted. Many of the workers in US feel that it is not easy to concentrate when the workplace is too hot. Employees will feel tired despite doing very less work – this is a great obstacle to productivity.

Freezing – occupants easily get distracted: Low temperatures also create problems in the workplace. Such conditions people often break more often for tea and for heading out. Market research conducted by Cornell University, discovered that workers in cold places make more errors, which potentially boost the worker’s hourly labor cost by 10%. Additionally, infectious diseases like cold and flu spread in one person to another in cold weather.

Benefits of improved temperature at workplace

The temperature should neither be hot nor cold at workplace. It ought to be balanced well. A business may benefit in many ways by implementing proper temperatures. A number of them are:

Increased comfort: Every employee spends nearly 8 to 9 hours each day at workplace. A well maintained, moderate temperature always makes the person feel at ease at the office. With increased comfortableness, the worker tends to work more productively.

Less distraction: Improved temperature which suits the requirements of the workers always leaves them less distracted helping them concentrate more on the work.

Healthy environment: Warmer temperature (not hot) creates healthy environment by manipulating the outspread of contagious diseases, that is common in cold conditions. Consequently, people will fall sick less often and hence absenteeism reduces.

Fewer errors: A Cornell University study discovered that typing errors fell by 44% and typing output increased by 150% when the temperature rose from 68 degrees F to 77 degrees F.

Recommended office temperature

In order to get all the previously discussed benefits, one needs to stick to the recommended temperature and humidity levels for the offices. Following would be the effective recommendations.

Based on American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), ‘thermal comfort’ (an employee wearing normal amount clothing) should feel neither freezing nor too warm. In order to maintain such conditions, they recommend maintaining 68 to 74 degrees F in winter and 73 to 79 degrees F in summer.

The Occupational Safe practices Administration (OSHA) of United States Department at work recommended the temperature range as 68 to 76 degrees F and the humidity control range as 20%-60% for office environments.

Since the winter is fast approaching, ensure your workplace temperature is maintained properly to be able to maintain or improve the workplace productivity. The most efficient and cost efficient way to heat the office space is by using electric heaters. They are very helpful for smaller businesses which cannot afford heating system. Even when there’s central heating option, some spaces within the workplaces will be deprived of the heat. Portable infrared heaters are very useful when you are these situations.

Moreover, we can save energy using infrared heaters since they waste no energy in warming the air, unlike the traditional heating systems. They are far more energy-efficient than heating systems.

Stephen Hawking – God Did Not Create Universe – A Rebuttal

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

God didn’t produce the universe, rather, it was an inevitable results of the laws of physics, argues physicist Stephen Hawking in his new book, “The Grand Design”, (co-authored by Leonard Mlodinow). Hawking writes, “Because there is a law for example gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation ‘s the reason there’s something instead of nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light nowhere touch paper and hang the universe going.” But, how can these laws of science that govern the roll-out of the universe, based on Hawking, arrived at exist?

How can we define science? Based on Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of science is “knowledge attained through study or practice,” or “knowledge covering general truths of the operation of general laws, esp. as obtained and tested through scientific method [and] worried about the physical world.” Therefore, before a “law” is passed in science, a theory has to be tried and tested, proven certainly the same result will time and time again be attained; for each “A” action, there’ll always be an “A” reaction. Based on this theory, all men ought to be created equal because the same spontaneous action required to create man should produce an identical person; the same action brings about exactly the same reaction. But it doesn’t work this way, will it?

If the development of the universe is solely according to science, then all things would be “fair”, i.e., all similar things could be created equal. Let’s further explore the laws of science with regards to this is of the word “fairness”. Based on the laws of science, some energy spent would produce a certain result. If a person studies physics for 5 hours, he should obtain a fixed quantity of knowledge. There’d not be any variation to the amount of knowledge attained by different people if the effort is identical. An “A” action can lead to an “A” reaction. What about having children? Exactly the same quantity of copulations should result in the same number of offsprings. If two persons consume the same things, do the same exercises, and live in exactly the same environment, they should live exactly the same period of time and die in the identical manner. There’d ‘t be any rich or poor, healthy or sick people. The laws of science would guarantee generic results. Everyone knows this theory isn’t true.

Science now permits us to create life; we are able to create duplicates of animals. We’re also in the process of recreating human organs from living cells to replace damaged ones. Yes it’s amazing, but it is always something from something. Not something from nothing. There is still no single development of science from nothing.

It is not difficult for the believers from the world’s main religions, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, to profess the existence of God. We feel and we affirm. Our faith in God is all we want. But exactly how do we prove that God exists to others? If science dictates exactly the same reaction for each action, then there should only be healthy or sick people, not both. Exactly the same amount of effort expended must produce the same amount of wealth. Only rich or the indegent, not both. The key reason why life is not “fair” is merely because God determines “fairness” over two periods; the present and also the eternal world. Any inequity in the current world is going to be accounted for within the next life. Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, “Art thou the king from the Jews?” Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not of this world.” (John 18:33-36)

Science discovers laws, God creates them. How do you account for the variations in everyday life? Let’s say you have made a game with all the governing rules. You could always alter the rules if you are not happy having a particular outcome, can’t you? It is the same with God. Just when we think we now have discovered the reason for something, God decides to change the rules and mess up our thinking. Jesus said, “… seeing they see not; and hearing they hear not; neither do they understand.” (Matthew 13:13). We’re always playing catch-up. God, the complete, the eternal, always wins!