Commercial sound masking systems will reduce noise levels to ensure that your environment is comfortable for everyone.
Suppose the large facility you manage often becomes burdened by a cacophony of noise, which makes it overwhelming to focus. One of the most challenging things about any workplace is managing the noise levels so that employees can concentrate and complete their work efficiently. To ensure that your workers can complete their best work and enjoy optimal productivity, commercial sound masking systems will reduce noise levels to ensure that your environment is comfortable for everyone.
How Does Sound Masking Work?
By placing a distributed audio system above or in the ceiling, we can add this ambient background sound to help your team unconsciously focus more on the masking than everything else around them. Because sound masking targets the same frequency as human speech, it minimizes its intelligibility. It also increases the space’s overall volume slightly in a controlled way to remove excess stimuli, making the area seem quieter.
Why is Sound Masking Used?
Commercial sound masking systems help protect sensitive content and improve overall worker productivity by eliminating some of the distractions around them. They also help safeguard individual privacy while satisfying the required HIPAA compliance and legal standards when workers discuss private customer information like financial or healthcare records.
Sound masking has become more essential in the workplace due to the significant transition to more open flood layouts, cubicles, and call center-type work environments with many people in a tight space. It’s difficult for employees to focus on their jobs when listening to what their neighbor is doing is easy. That is where sound masking comes in.
Benefits of Sound Masking in an Office Space
- Commercial sound masking systems allow you to mask confidential information that you don’t want unintended people overhearing
- Sound masking also protects patient privacy, strengthens confidentiality, and increases employee well-being
- Eliminating distractions in the office, sound masking can create a productive work environment
If your open office layout is distracting your workers, contact the experts at Edwards & Hill about our sound masking capabilities. Give us a call at 301-317-4250 to discuss the details.
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