Music in the Workplace: Can it Help Productivity, or Is it Treble?

您的员工在工作时喜欢听音乐吗？对于许多人来说，音乐有助于提高参与度，士气和整体生产力。但是，工作场所的音乐实际上对您的业务增长有益吗？

要找出答案，我们将结束：

• 音乐在工作场所的好处（和缺点）
• 工作场所研究中的音乐
• 创建一个解决音乐的政策
• 耳机和安全性

工作场所音乐的好处和缺点

So, is music in the workplace good or bad? Like anything else, there are both pros and cons to letting employees listen to music through their headphones or speakers.

专业人士。Listening to music in the workplace can help employees:

• 专注于工作
• Absorb information
• 刺激创造力
• Drown out co-workers
• 分解平凡的任务
• 提升士气

缺点。Music in the workplace may hinder productivity because it could:

• Prevent employees from hearing customers or co-workers
• 打扰另一个工人
• 引起干扰

在工作中听音乐的优势和缺点取决于行业，员工的职位以及员工的工作习惯。

工作场所研究中的音乐

So, can music make employees more productive? Take a look at what the research found on music in the workplace:

Who lets employees listen to music?Computer programming, data analytics, advertising, and marketingare the areas most likely让员工听音乐。

Who’s listening?According to one set of music in the workplace statistics,一半的受访者say they listen to music regularly at work.

生产率:One study foundthat 73% of warehouse workers were more productive when there was background music playing. And, 65% of businesses thought music made them more productive.

Accuracy:另一项研究报告电报发现有88％的工人进行数据输入，解决数学问题和校对会产生更准确的工作，而听音乐时81％的工作速度更快。

专注：According to Dr. Sood at the Mayo Clinic，，，，15 – 30 minutes of listening to music can help someone regain concentration.

情绪：音乐，无论类型如何，都可以帮助relax employees，，，，which can improve productivity.

分心：Listening to background music can干扰阅读过程，，，，according to one analysis.

为音乐充电可能是许多员工从事工作所需的推动力。而且，有很多员工敬业度的优势，例如提高生产率，准确性和集中度。

但是，音乐可能会分散某些员工的注意力。更不用说音乐是有帮助还是受伤的类型of music…

音乐类型如何影响生产力

生产力可能会因员工聆听的音乐类型及其工作职责而有所不同。例如，带有歌词的音乐可能会阻碍生产力，而不仅仅是帮助它。

One study by剑桥声音管理发现演讲是48％的员工最令人不安的噪音。而且，因此，员工每天浪费21.5分钟。

In some cases, music genres without lyrics might boost productivity more than music with speech. Here are some types of music that might help employees stay focused:

• Classical
• 器乐
• Movie / TV scores
• Video game soundtracks
• 自然
• 白噪声

基本上，some researchshows that music without lyrics is best for people to focus. But for some people, music like rock, hip-hop, jazz, alternative, etc. can be best.

帮助具有生产力的员工的音乐也可能取决于工人在做什么。您的员工是在做体力劳动还是坐在办公桌上进行研究？不同的工作可能需要不同的类型。

According to The Telegraph study, employees with different positions increased their productivity depending on the types of music they listened to. The percentages show the difference between listening to music as opposed to not listening to any music:

• Classical music:做数学问题的工人将其准确性提高了12％
• 流行音乐：Data-entry workers worked 58% faster while listening to pop music
• Dance music:工人将校对速度提高20％

而且，没有两名工人是一样的。员工有不同的喜好，他们（很可能）知道哪种类型的音乐可以帮助他们简化操作。

关于说话者系统的一句话：现在，如果是否你想通过工作场所的扬声器系统播放音乐吗？在此之前，请确保您的员工可以。如果客户能听到音乐，请检查是否合适。远离令人反感或分心的音乐。

创建一个解决音乐的政策

Whether you allow, disallow, or limit music in the workplace, you should create a policy and add it to your员工手册。这可以帮助您和您的员工避免混乱。

If you limit your employees’ ability to listen to music, include information like:

• 哪些位置可以听音乐
• 员工如何听音乐
• 最佳实践

You might not allow certain positions to listen to music. For example, you may restrict employees who directly deal with customers or work closely with other employees from listening to music. If a customer or co-worker has a question for an employee listening to music, trying to get their attention could get frustrating.

也许您有关于员工如何听音乐的规则。您可能允许音乐，但不允许流媒体服务。流媒体是员工使用应用程序或网站收听未下载到其设备上的音乐的地方。

Employees should be courteous when listening to music. They shouldn’t sing with the music out loud. And, the volume shouldn’t be so loud that the employee can’t hear anything else.

耳机和安全性

在某些行业（例如建筑）中，戴耳机可能很危险。根据您的业务，您可能需要限制听音乐，以使您的员工安全。

If the work your business does is dangerous or has the potential to result in injury, your workers should stay away from using headphones. Having music blasting in their ears can result in the employee not being aware of their surroundings.

For example, you have an employee operating heavy machinery and listening to music in their headphones. A problem comes up, and a co-worker tries to get their attention. Because of the music, the worker operating the machinery can’t hear. Avoid issues like this by regulating listening to music.

Keep in mind thatOSHA（职业安全与健康管理局）调节工作场所的安全。OSHA在工作场所播放音乐的法律之一是，音乐播放器耳机并不算是听到响亮和破坏性噪音的听力保护。

This article has been updated from its original publication date of August 25, 2017.

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