Some companies even override individual preferences altogether and broadcast music around entire offices in an attempt to improve their employees’ productivity.Īt the other end of the spectrum are those with such an extreme aversion to sound that it qualifies as a condition. Others liked it for the exact opposite reason – that it provided a welcome distraction while they worked. Some said they thought it helped them to concentrate.
Working to music is also extremely common a 2011 study of nearly 300 office employees in the UK showed that, on average, they spent nearly a third of their working week listening to various genres. Bizarrely, the video Office Sound 2 Hours – which involves exactly what the title suggests, namely two hours of authentic office clatter – currently has around 1,864,570 views on YouTube. At one end of the scale, workers may actively enjoy the ambience of a noisy office. Why do we find it so hard to be around these everyday noises? What is it about them that allows them to lodge in our brains and make it impossible to think?įirst up, there is an extraordinary amount of variability in what individuals can tolerate. According to a 2015 survey of the most annoying office noises by Avanta Serviced Office Group, conversations were rated the most vexing, closely followed by coughing, sneezing and sniffing, loud phone voices, ringing phones and whistling.
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