According to the National Weather Service, which recently declared my work station the cold spot in the nation, millions of office workers are found frozen at their desks every summer and have to be carried outside in the hot sun to thaw out.

This, of course, has a chilling effect on workplace productivity. And the reason is simple: There is no such thing as climate control.

America is a country that can build spaceships capable of withstanding extreme climatic forces to go where no one has gone before, but it can’t even construct office buildings in which the temperature can be easily and consistently regulated to ensure that the people who work in them do not have to be hung on meat racks and sold for $2.99 a pound.

But I am an optimist, perhaps because my brain is now the consistency of sherbet, and I know that behind every silver lining there is a cloud that will soon dump a foot of snow on my desk.

That is why I can see the one great advantage of this technological travesty: I don’t have to go through the trouble of changing my seasonal wardrobe twice a year. Instead of putting my winter clothes away every spring and taking out my summer duds, and then switching them every fall, which entails lugging heavy boxes up to the attic, I just leave everything out. Sure, my sweaters may be crammed into my bureau drawers along with my Bermuda shorts and polo shirts, but at least I am prepared for whatever the weather will be in the office.

In fact, if office managers were smart (I told you I am an optimist), they would offer prospective employees not only free medical coverage, which under these severe conditions is an absolute necessity, but free luggage so office workers could bring a change of clothes to work every day. In the summer, people could wear T-shirts and cut-offs on the way to work, then change into cardigans and corduroys when they got to the office.

In the winter, when most offices feel like saunas, they could do the opposite. On casual Fridays, employees could sit around in towels, which would be a wonderful way to relieve stress and lose weight at the same time. And all without the expense of joining a health club!

I am afraid, however, that my brilliant scheme won’t work. That’s because when it is 99 degrees outside, it is usually 45 in the office. And when it’s 45 outside, it’s usually 99 in the office. Add those sets of numbers and divide each set by 2 and you get an average temperature of 72 degrees.

Maybe there is such a thing as climate control after all.