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by sarreph 22 days ago
From the article, it's for "jobs in sectors like agriculture and construction". Would be interesting to learn about how this kind of work is managed in hotter climates.

For office work, a lot of European countries (especially the UK) haven't invested in AC as much as the rest of the world because they haven't needed to. This is especially apparent in housing, where working from home is becoming difficult in these higher temperatures.

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I play games with a guy who does concrete work in Arizona, he mostly works at night.
I lived for a while in Tucson, Arizona.

Days could be brutally hot ( easily over 100 F ), but there was little humidity. My transportation was a motorcycle ( with additional heat radiating off the engine ), so mid often feel a little uncomfortable, but it was definitely livable.

Interestingly, homeowners often used evaporative ‘swamp coolers’ instead of AC. A big benefit of low humidity.

> how this kind of work is managed in hotter climates.

Natural adaptation.