Message #79586

[countrigal]

Our builldings have windows that you can't open... so that option has never been an option.  So desk fans and under desk heaters is the way we all control it.  Though at my last desk, I got a bit more ingenious.  We are it cubicle-ville, so no walls or except exteriors.  My desk was directly under one of the air vents and the cold air blew straight down on me at my pc... no sharing with the other 3 cubicles directly connected to mine until after it blew down into mine and circulated its way out.  So... I took an umbrella, opened it up and placed it under the air vent (just over my cubicle wall, so not at the ceiling height), and immediately noticed a HUGE difference, as now the air was being shared equally between all the connected cubicles.  (Think of a plus sign, with an umbrella over where the lines intersect.... that's how our desks looked and what I managed to do.)  My cubicle still got air, but not all of it... and the others got more.

Every desk in this office basically has one or the other (fan or heater) with some of us having both.  The only negative to that is that if your electrical system isn't good enough you can over power it.  I would caution you to speak with your building maintenance before just adding anything... though you should be safe with a fan.  Heaters pull more amps.