A new study has found that hot weather may cause significant global economic losses because workers are less productive when it is warm. It also adds that adaptation measures such as air conditioning may not fully solve this problem.
The study shows that productivity drops by as much as four per cent per degree when temperatures rise above 27 degrees Celsius (80 degrees Fahrenheit) in workplaces requiring manual labour. In highly automated settings, this effect was not observed.
Less productive workers mean a less productive business, and a less productive economy. They found that the value of output declined by about three per cent for every degree above the average temperature.
The study suggests that to sustain and grow worker productivity, businesses and governments must adapt to climate change. Climate control, such as air conditioning, is an expensive solution and may still be only a partial fix. In the long-run manufacturing sectors may migrate to cooler climates, or automation may increase to make up for less productive human employees, it adds.
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Bibliography
Nidhi Singh. (2018). Temperature Impacts Workplace Productivity Too. Retrieved from
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/319479
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