ADI Workplace Acoustics Sound Masking

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1. Elizabeth Halliday wrote:

Interesting article but I do feel that cubicles inhibit productivity rather than enhance it as they are blockers to interactions. Supplying quiet rooms or areas where people can go and interact both 1:1 or on phones lessens the noise impact on others. Also assessment of work activities by 'noise' distractions enables planners to place the more noisey occupants on the outer areas of the workplace as they are more often than not the ones who have the most visitors or users of phones.
We are finding that workplaces who use more soft seating areas together with wifi are providing more productive environments as it is often the case that unless very task focused people are spending less time at desks and more in interaction spaces

January 11, 2010 @ 4:18 AM

2. Steve wrote:

No disagreement. Collaboration is important. In the "wide open" workplace, we use sound masking to keep one group's collaboration from being the next group's distraction.

It also allows the quiet rooms and conference rooms to be constructed less expensively while delivering confidentiality.

February 5, 2010 @ 3:30 PM

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