Notes on the quiet office
Open-plan noise does not affect everyone equally. The research is consistent that intelligible speech is the worst offender, far more than broadband noise, and that the people it disrupts most are often the least likely to ask for a change. These articles cover what the evidence supports, which accommodations are worth funding rather than merely announcing, and where an enclosed quiet space belongs on a floor plan that has to work for everyone on it.
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Distraction, concentration, and accommodations that work
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In today’s open-office era, we’ve traded walls for collaboration, but what did we lose in the process? Silence. The hum of office chatter, endless Zoom calls, clicking keyboards, and hallway commotion form a constant soun...
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