With the digital society we live with today, it has become quite commonplace for people to log on at some point throughout the day. It has become commonplace to interact with a keyboard and terminal at some point on a daily basis and if you are working, chances are you encounter this situation for hours on end. (more…)
The continuous evolution of the human civilization has enabled us to exert the minimal amount of effort in going through our daily chores. Whatever industry we may be in, there is a computer waiting for us, to do our bidding with a stroke of a key and click of the mouse. From start-up companies to fulfilled corporations, majority of offices in the world have at least one of these electronic brains. Without a doubt, computers have become indispensable for mankind. (more…)
While the modern workplace is slowly catching up with the times by equipping each employee with their own computers or stations, peripherals attached to these machines basically remain the same. For example, most offices still issue standard computer keyboards despite the fact that smaller and health-friendly keyboards are already out on the market. Yes, mini keyboards are not only small, as their name implies, but they have added benefits aside from taking up a more finite amount of space on your desk. (more…)
Back in college, did you ever find yourself trying to study with a party going on a few doors down? If you did, then you know how hard it is to work in a noisy, distracting environment. Now bring that problem to an office setting. Office noise, it has been found, affects the productivity of employees. In a study by the Data Entry Management Association, poor office acoustics increased the errors made in data entries by as much as 27%. And noise levels in offices have increased over the past years. Cost-cutting leads to workstations being closer placed together than ever, so that there are more people making noise in a smaller area, and telecommunications has become vital to doing business, resulting in the distracting sounds of phones and fax machines. All this has triggered dramatic improvements in sound masking. Now, this practice isn’t new. The ancient Romans used indoor fountains in homes to mask the noise outside. You’re probably familiar with this phenomenon yourself: have you tried to have a conversation with someone in another room while you’re in the bathroom with the water running? That, in a nutshell, is how sound masking works. All sounds – like the human voice – travel at certain frequencies. Our voices are on high frequencies, which the human ear is especially attuned to. By introducing another sound, one at a certain lower frequency, the human ear then registers the voice as softer, and thus, less intrusive. Specialists use this principle to apply masking to your office. With a series of speakers usually mounted in the ceiling tiles themselves, a barely-noticeable sound is generated throughout the workplace. This sound is soft and non-distracting, and it will mask much of the noise in a busy work environment. A sound masking expert, when trying to apply a system to any office, has to take several things into account. One is the size and shape of the room that requires masking. The height of the ceiling, or the shape of the walls, for example, can have significant effects on how noise is carried throughout the office. Another factor is the usual noise level. Certain offices may require activity that is noisier: in a phone-intensive office, for example, most employees may be having telephone conversations all at once. So try and consult a specialist. There are several companies out there that offer sound masking services. They can help you design your office in such a way as to ensure optimum acoustics, which will lead to greater productivity. They can also set up active masking systems for you, and make sure that your environment can help you work harder and focus better.
The regular office has gotten noisier. Sound masking is used in offices today to reduce noise levels in the workplace. By introducing a low-frequency, non-intrusive sound to the environment, distracting noise like phone calls and loud voices are reduced. In this way, masking helps to increase productivity in the office by helping workers focus better and be more productive.
- Frank Barnett
Left-handed keyboards have been around for some time now, but remain quite a mystery to most people. For some, they didn’t even know that such a contraption actually existed! Simply put, left-handed keyboards are designed to cater specifically to someone who is left handed. (more…)
With the advent of new technologies, video games today games now feature better graphics, more complex gameplay, and, in many cases, demand more playtime. The most popular massively-multiplayer online game today has 10 million players worldwide, each of them playing an average of 17 hours a week. This rapid increase in the gaming population has also resulted in a change in the players themselves. (more…)
A modern office can be a hectic, loud, and unpleasant place. Between ringing phones and yammering coworkers, it can seem impossible to get any work done. Investing in an office white noise system for your office might be a wise option. (more…)
If you are employed in a crowded office, you would be well and truly aware of the distractions to your job due to excessive noise. Many office workers are boxed in from three sides with cubicles of their so-workers. The distractions are compounded when you have several co-workers making or attending telephone calls all around you. (more…)
In our modern business world, the communication of key info is critical. But in many open office plans, this communication ends up being heard by both those who need to hear it all and those who do not. Regarding the latter, it is simply more noise and is a distraction which makes them much less productive. (more…)
Approximately 50 million Americans work in open plan offices. Open plan offices are environments in which workers do their job in closely-grouped cubicles. Though these cubicles are more space-efficient and improve the communication between workers, they are an acoustic challenge. (more…)
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