It sounds very weird. If the space is closed, the AC makes the air dryer, so sweating should be minimal on these low temperatures (dampness is hell).
Are you sitting next to a window that is blasting its rays over your body?
Is the building badly designed?
Are you protected by a layer of fat cells?
Sweating at 24-26C without sunlight blasting at you is very anomalous.
Lowering the AC to 20C or below is such an insanely wasteful thing to do it ought to be forbidden. The biggest CO2 footprint is us, the first world, heating and cooling.
As someone that lives in the UK, 24-26C is where you would find me in a T-shirt and shorts and probably still feeling warm. Any physical or mental exertion will probably lead to a bit of sweating.
21 degrees is what I would consider a 'normal' room temperature, anything above 23 I would consider 'warm'.
I don't disagree with you but I'm not sure all your questions are reasonable/respectful. Here are a few examples from my situation.
The AC in Japan has two settings--one is cool and one is "dry" for dehumidify. The cool setting does not dry the air (or if so, ever so slightly). We have high humidity so 26 degrees can feel hot indoors.
There are some seats in the office that are close enough to have the sunlight hit the desk. I'm not in one of those seats but can imagine it feels very hot.
Our office is "set" to 25 but at my desk it is often over 28 degrees (all the towers are on the tables and the AC is far from my location). I consider myself in fairly good shape but sweat quite a lot when it's over 28 degrees with a PC tower blowing hot air at me.
> The AC in Japan has two settings--one is cool and one is "dry" for dehumidify. The cool setting does not dry the air (or if so, ever so slightly). We have high humidity so 26 degrees can feel hot indoors.
I'm curious how this works. In America, we have only one setting, and it does both. The indoor air is 23 degrees or so (22 in busy offices, 25 in frugal/environmentally conscious homes...28 would be considered oppressive heat, no matter the humidity). But the evaporator coils in the air handler should be cooled to about 5 degrees in a properly functioning air conditioner. If the air is humid when it cools on these coils, it drops below the dew point, and humidity condenses out of the air to be drained out of the building. If the AC is properly sized, it keeps the air indoors comfortably dehumidified (if too large, it will cool a small amount of air by a lot, and run too infrequently to dehumidify; if too small, the air temperature will not drop enough to cause condensation).
We also have dehumidifiers, which are practically identical to air conditioners but have the condenser coils in the same machine to warm the air back up before it exits (and to simplify construction/improve efficiency). These actually add a bit of heat to the room, but do dry out the air. Typically, these are only used when a home doesn't have an air conditioner.
The office HVAC was one of those new green energy efficient one. It didn't seem to extract humidity as well at higher temps. I complained about the humidity level, but it was easier just to move to a cafe with decent AC.
I wasn't sweating heavily, or any at all, just my arms were sticky to the desk. It was warm enough that long sleeves were out of the question, so contact was unavoidable. Also, my desk was next to a window facing east, and our blinds were a bit tricky to raise and lower (decide between, darkness and heat filtering).
It is easier to deal with 26C as a baseline temperature in LA than BJ given that humidity is much lower in the former.
Are you sitting next to a window that is blasting its rays over your body?
Is the building badly designed?
Are you protected by a layer of fat cells?
Sweating at 24-26C without sunlight blasting at you is very anomalous.
Lowering the AC to 20C or below is such an insanely wasteful thing to do it ought to be forbidden. The biggest CO2 footprint is us, the first world, heating and cooling.