Workplace distractions
American businesses lose around $650 billion a year through workplace distractions. It’s easy to assume that your company is not one of them. However, since the average employee squanders more than 2 hours a work day on or because of distractions, chances are your company contributes to that total.
Scapegoat
It’s also easy to blame the employees- why can’t they just focus and do their work? The simple truth is that even the most devoted employee cannot avoid untreated distractions in the workplace. Every day he hears phone calls, copy doors slammed in frustration, water cooler gossip, cell phones buzzing, elevator doors dinging, office doors opening and closing, and so on- you get the idea. You really can’t blame the employees when it’s their environment that’s the true culprit.
Sound masking
Short of remodeling from the floor up, there’s not a lot you can do, except implement sound masking. Similar to white noise canceling distracting (and irritating) noises, our systems provide precise and uniform sound masking so that your employees can concentrate on the task at hand. Our systems work with any new or existing facility and are extremely low-maintenance, thus meeting any budget. In times like these, every minute counts. It’s time to reclaim the hundreds of hours your business has already lost.
Keller, Emily. The Worst Workplace Distractions. Retrieved August 15, 2009 from http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/07/0719_distractions/index_01.htm