How Your Acoustics Environment Affects Your Business

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Your acoustic environment impacts your business, as has already been mentioned. Noise and conversational distractions lower productivity in open workplaces.

Imagine listening to employees whispering or talking in a very quiet room. It can be both annoying and frustrating because you could hardly get things done when you are distracted.

This constant distraction affects your level of performance; in fact, constant noise can result to what is referred to as "disengaged employees."

What Happens When Your Employees Become "Disengaged"?

Disengaged employees most likely:
-are 20% less productive
-have 28% more rates of absenteeism
- have 25-45% more chance to seek employment elsewhere

And fast turn-over is costly!

The bad news: conversational distraction is a hidden cost; nobody takes notice easily.

Are You Ready to Solve the Problem?

If you're ready to solve this problem, then here's a good solution to help improve your office privacy and ultimately increase your employee productivity and business profits: use sound masking!

Here is a video that explains the basics of sound masking.  Don't miss it!

Open Office Space Ideas: Sound Masking for Productive Employees

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Open Space Offices Are Breeding Ground of Intruding Noise

Office noise triggers inefficiency among employees, for who can work in an office environment that sounds like a colony of bees? Even productive employees are not spared from this phenomenon that affects productivity slowly, but surely.

Businesses are constantly in the lookout for new ways to cut down costs, and so the open space offices came about; however, the impact this idea has on the long term aspect of business is not very reassuring.

You Have Reached this Far...Are You Having Problems with Office Noise, too?

Elevated noise levels at the workplace can have a negative impact on employees' productivity.

Keep office noise under control by installing sound masking system, which masks unwanted noise at the workplace. Good office acoustics boost productivity. How? When distractions are eliminated, focus is improved; you will be surprised at what an employee can do, and how much he can deliver, if his concentration is unperturbed by noise.

To fully understand how open space offices affect employees' performance, please watch this video about the basics of sound masking.