I used to spend every single afternoon in the office, and then I was promoted to office manager and that includes my own office.
- A lot of people looked at me strangely after I took the promotion, but I didn’t want to spend my whole life working in a small cubicle with less space than a prisoner.
After I became office manager, one thing that came up in every single meeting was the cost to heat and cool the office building. As office manager, heating and cooling costs were part of my department. It was up to me to lower heating and cooling costs and that meant making sure that the office temperatures were set at 72° at all times. I knew for sure that the office temperatures were never left at 72°, because we regularly adjusted the temperature in the office when no one was around. Now it was my turn to be the boss and that meant making the thermostat unaccessible to all of the employees. I had a building automation company install a Wi-Fi thermostat that allows me to manage the office temperatures much more easily and effectively. The Wi-Fi thermostat allows me to change the office temperatures when necessary, but the rest of the time the system is on a program schedule. No one has access to the Wi-Fi thermostat except me and you need a special code to access the system. There’s no way that the temperatures can be changed now and this should help the company save at least $1,000 every single month.
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