The Benefits of White Noise in Your Office
Posted in Health & Safety
White noise, to be strict about it, is not a noise. People just got used to calling white sound as such. Actually, white noise is a sound frequency or signal that one hears as a gentle hiss, much like the sound of wind rustling through leaves, a waterfall, static, or ocean surf.
How does this relate to the office setting, you say, since you can not put up a makeshift waterfall in the middle of the floor? Well, there are ways of inducing white noise into your cubicle, if not for the rest of the office.
Available online are different mechanisms you could use in creating artificial white noise. But of course, this comes with a price.
A weapon of choice could be white noise CDs. Unlike your mp3 playlist, a white noise CD produces a consistent hiss for you to improve your concentration and mask out unnecessary din. Of course, what you get is no Beethoven classic, but if you want literal peace of mind and are willing to pay for it, that is you could get.
Some offices, however, wholesale white noise through a variety of ways. One method is they play white noise over the speakers for a global effect. Another investment higher management spends on are white noise machines.
Some ingenious critic might say, "Isn't the hum of the airconditioner not enough?" He has a point actually. That being said, the most practical way of having white noise is for everybody to shut up and let the aircon do its secondary duty. Easier said than done though. Besides, those white noise experts online do not recommend utilizing common office equipment as white noise generators.
In the end, regardless which sound masking process you or the department decide on, what is the plus side of having static run in the building speakers? It is supposed to improve your concentration, thus making you more productive and make you relaxed at the same time with this therapeutic whoosh.
