Is this focus?

It’s play-off season, and one can’t help but admire players’ focus…focus as they throw, run, receive, block, sack, intercept.  Focus as they give everything they have for 6 points…focus as they sit on the sidelines and wait to start again.

Are you focused?  Is your work force focused?  Probably not as much as you’d like.  In fact, the average worker is distracted more than 2  hours a day. Think about that- every worker you have multiplied by 2, and that’s how many potentially productive hours your office loses a day.

It’s a new year and a good time to restructure, reorganize, and rethink problem areas before too much time gets wasted.  It’s easy to blame your employees for their lack of focus, but regardless of the role they play, you can minimize the level of distraction and maximize productivity by implementing sound masking.  Better than simply trying to block noise by changing the aesthetics of the office through the addition of walls, for example, sound masking is an invisible covering solution tucked away in the ceiling.  (For more information on the ABCs of acoustic treatments, go here.)  The end result is that sound masking enables workers to be more focused, or actually engaged in their work, rather than distracted by anything and everything they hear.

Just like it only takes one moment of distraction to change the result of the game, it only takes one distracted worker to bring down the whole office.  Make a power play and reclaim that lost energy.