"ATTENTION KMART SHOPPERS!"
Background music is everywhere. From the frozen vegetables aisle of your favorite grocery store to the seating areas of restaurants, businesses nowadays always occupy their guests with music turned up just enough to provide a sense of environment. But is there any reasons deeper to providing ease? The short answer is – yep! But there's so much more to it than that.
It’s a Monday morning and you’ve just shown up to work. You start up up your laptop, answer some emails, and get some coffee brewed and flowing through you. Finally, it’s time to resume that big project you have due later this week.
However, a few minutes in, your co-workers start chatting a few cubicles down. Then another co-worker starts using the printer. You hear the beep of the toaster oven go off. And now you must refocus yourself, to your chagrin.
As we transition back into the office, people will struggle to adjust to the atmosphere. For many, the main struggle will be the noise that comes with being in the office versus being at home. So, this begs the question, how can you make your office less distracting to returning employees?
We’re quickly settling into our new office space in the Whitehall Technology Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. This new space allows us to easily get to our clients near and far, has warehousing space to better prepare for projects, and room to continue growing.
A sound masking system can solve your office speech privacy problem. You may be asking if there is, in fact, a speech privacy problem in your office? Chances are your answer is yes, because it's the number one driver of workplace dissatisfaction. According to Cambridge Sound Management, 60% of open office employees are unhappy with their lack of speech privacy.
Are your conversations private? Whispering or even a conversation behind closed doors doesn't always guarantee someone else can't hear you.
With the rise of open office floor plans and the need to protect patient privacy, speech privacy has become more critical than ever before. So, what is sound masking, and how does it help speech privacy? Sound masking is a barely noticeable sound that is similar to airflow, but it's specially tuned to make human speech less intelligible.
