What is Sound Masking?
Every work environment is unique, but one thing is constant—when you bring people close together, distractions happen and privacy is decreased. In fact, breeches in privacy can have devastating effects in many professional environments and conversational distractions are the BIGGEST cause of lost productivity in offices by up to a staggering 66%, costing your company thousands per month.
Sound masking is a simple technology that efficiently minimizes workplace distractions and dependably ensures conversational privacy in a wide variety of environments from call centers and workspaces to counseling offices, military facilities, healthcare providers, financial institutions and more.
When companies reduce conversational distractions by implementing our SIMPLE sound masking solutions
%
Focus
Improves by 48%
%
Distractions
Decrease by 51%
%
Error Rates
Decrease by 10%
%
Stress
Decreases by up to 27%
How Does Sound Masking Work?
Small speakers are placed in the ceiling of your office area which emit a low-level background sound.
When utilized to boost productivity, speakers are placed uniformly throughout the office in order to render speech and other distracting sounds unintelligible from a distance.
When utilized to ensure privacy, speakers are placed strategically outside private offices and conference rooms to ensure conversations are contained within each room and can’t be overheard.
Most applications employ a combination of both approaches and a well-configured system will …
- Be unobtrusive—sounds like airflow
- Cover over speech and other private information
- Reduce distractions, which increases productivity and focus
- Be compatible with background music and paging capability
Want to take a deeper dive into sound masking? Download one of our in-depth PDFs: Sound Masking 101 or The Modern Office Has a Speech Problem.
All About Sound Masking
The ROI of Sound Masking
Without Sound Masking
- Number of Workers: 34
- Min Lost per Day per Worker: 45 Avg
- Annual Salary: $40,000
Cost per Month: $13,281.25
With Sound Masking
- Number of Workers: 34
- Min Saved per Day per Worker: 15 Avg
- Annual Salary: $40,000
Savings per Month: $4,427.08