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Sound Masking - The Best Way To Deal With Office Noise

by Wade Smith

Distracted

Do you know that the attention of your employees are diverted for more than 2 hours each day? Actually, 2 hours is the average. You can say that the cause of this distraction is all the stuff that technology brings - Facebook, emails, Twitter, texting, online games and others. The things is it's not entirely technology's fault. Even if they can be a cause of distraction, technology is also what makes your company run as efficiently as it does now. No, it's not a problem you can let go but you can't really take technology away from your employees or else your company would go stone age.

Conversational Distractions

Since technology plays a little part of the two-hour distraction we mentioned above, what about the rest? Conversational distractions are the responsible party for a big chunk of those 2 hours. You know, gossiping, chitchats, teasing and others are what lessens their productivity. However, it's hard for you to cut off these conversations, more so their conflicts. Additionally, even those who aren't engaging in these conversations are distracted due to the racket it creates. That's what has led to workers reporting that all they want is distraction-free solo work time. Time to be free of office noise and to get work done. These requests are both reasonable and effective.

How do you facilitate distraction-free solo work time?

Companies have gotten pretty creative, offering conference room time blocking slots even for individual work time or mandating "quiet" time in which all noise-producing tech stuff gets shut off. A good alternative is to do sound masking. Like its name suggests, sound masking is white noise through office speakers in the ceiling tiles that is low-level but just structured enough to cover, or mask, unwanted, intrusive noise. Sound masking has worked wonders for employers who have installed these speakers in their office.

So, if you want to tune out conversations to increase your workers' productivity, check out office sound masking options for your workplace.

Published May 11th, 2011

Filed in Business


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