This is why you need to thermostats in a home.
One that control the heat. One that women can turn up and down.
That does nothing.
Makes them happy with their heat moods.
If I had any sense, I’d close my keyboard down now.
I was very senior R&D in one of the world’s largest biomed device companies. Got bored, resigned, and with friends, started up a small company. Parenthetically, I loved it. It gave me an excuse to learn 5 or 6 new technologies. including extrusion, insert molding, centerless grinding, balloon blowing, etc.
When the largest privately-held company in the world bought us, I became, by defauult, CEO for a while.
Drove me crazy. Refereeing battles between production & R&D and sales. Facilities management. On and on.
My main-line secretarial staff shared space with QA and finance in one leased building. The primary secretary (who saved my ass more times than I can remember)was menopausal.
I bring this up only beacuse I was a biophysicist/ cardiovascular physiologist/biomed engineer by training. Plus company-grade officer US Army. Nothing prepared me for this. Fights would ensue over the thermostat settings.
We are talking VERY northern mid-west. Temp differential between the double air-lock doors of the main entance could be 105 F in February.
I moved desks, put up walls. I tried the plastic boxes that gave access only to key holders. Eventually, i just set two of them up, with no direct connection to the HVAC at all.
Worked like a charm. Placebo effect.
You can get by with just one. If someone changes the thermostat & the other doesn’t approve, just wait awhile when no one is looking & change it, maybe just a little at at a time. It might go unnoticed if the objectee doesn’t even realize it has been changed. Yeah, I know it sounds sneaky.