As more companies champion a return to the office, once empty workspaces are now back to bustling with activity. But with this shift, a new issue has surfaced: noise. Supporters of office-based ...

But when he’s just trying to get work done, the distractions and noise at Argent’s open plan office make him 40% less productive than at home, he estimates. Music escaping from coworkers’ he ...

That prompted them to conduct this latest study to try and understand what impact that noise had and the physiological reaction we have to typical office-based noise. The researchers quizzed a few ...

From colleagues chatting about their weekends or having intense phone conversations, to email alerts and loud tapping on keyboards, the evidence that open-plan offices take a toll on our wellbeing ...