Office noise is quite a problem. Studies tell us that distractions, and namely conversational ones, cost US businesses $600 billion a year. It's a staggering number that many worry about- how to reduce distractions and lower that number? How to increase productivity?
Office distractions can't possibly add up to $600 billion, can they? Sure, we all spend a little more time getting coffee and chatting it up than we have to, but how can that possibly add up to such an astronomical number? Well, the truth is that the average employee is distracted more than 2 hours a day mostly due to conversational distraction, including both the conversations they actively take part in, as well as those they are held captive to by sheer proximity. Thus, when you do the math for every employee losing 2 hours per day, you start to see a whole lot more zeros... especially when you factor in the other resulting problems from this kind of worker disengagement, such as increased stress and errors with less problem-solving prowess.
The High Cost of Worker Disengagement (and how to turn it around!)A study by the Towers-Perrin Group found a 52% gap in one-year operating income, when comparing companies with highly engaged employees versus companies whose employees have low engagement scores. High engagement companies improved 19.2% while low engagement companies declined 32.7% in operating income over the study period. Would a 52% gap be enough to set you apart from your competition?
Sound too good to be true? According to an American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) study, workers in offices with even small acoustic treatments were:
Put
it all together, and you’ll see that better office privacy means a
better bottom line for your business. That’s because workers are less
distracted, and therefore more focused on their work, more likely to
find solutions, and less likely to experience high levels of stress.
Worker turn-over and absenteeism tends to decrease as well.
If you’re ready to see your workers more engaged, more productive, less error-prone, and generally happier, then contact us today for a no-obligation custom-engineered sound masking technology, so you can reclaim your lost time and money!