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Background noise has been found to be what affects <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/krisp.ai\/blog\/best-productivity-blogs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">productivity<\/span><\/a> negatively<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in fact, they might even give your productivity a boost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[demo]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working on an assembly line where you put 2 toys in a box every minute is an example of a repetitive task, it doesn\u2019t require a lot of cognitive power. Same goes for cleaning, background noise can&#8217;t prevent you from concentrating while cleaning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No experimental research has ever said noise reduces productivity in repetitive tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What affects productivity is loud noise?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers have always concluded that noise, especially loud intermittent noise, leads to a decrease in cognitive performance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psychologist Nick Perham, who studies the effect of sound on how we think, has found that noise in the office impairs workers\u2019 ability to recall information, and even to do basic arithmetic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And you might think listening to your favorite music might help block out the noise, but even that has been found to impair our mental acuity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1990\" src=\"https:\/\/krisp.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/siddharth-bhogra-143322-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"background noise is bad\" width=\"5077\" height=\"3385\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Noise exposure also negatively affects the health of employees. In a study by Cornell University psychologists Gary Evan and Dana Johnson, a group of clerical workers who were exposed to 3 hours of low-intensity office-like noise were found to have increased levels of epinephrine(adrenaline), a hormone that\u2019s released when we are shocked or under stress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They also found that workers in <a href=\"https:\/\/krisp.ai\/blog\/communicating-in-noisy-environment\/\">noisy environments<\/a> hardly made ergonomic, postural adjustments in their work stations and are thus usually physically strained and at risk for musculoskeletal disorder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On top of that, their subjects showed lowered ability to tackle puzzling tasks. In other words, after they came out of the noise immersion experiments they lost any motivation to tackle knotty tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NOISE AND CREATIVITY<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we say noise is harmful, what about people who go to coffee shops to work because according to them, they enjoy the ambient noise that is characteristic of coffee shops and that it puts them \u201cin the zone.\u201d Are they saying the truth? Do they really get anything meaningful done? Or are they just deluding themselves and wasting their times?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surprisingly, it turns out that the right amount of noise MIGHT provide some benefits to certain kinds of work challenges under the right circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of researchers led by Ravi Mehta, a professor of business administration, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign wanted to study the effects of noise on creative thinking, so they asked participants to brainstorm ideas for new products while they were exposed to several levels of background noise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1989\" src=\"https:\/\/krisp.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/art-1851483_1920.jpg\" alt=\"background noise helps creativity\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1146\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What they found was astonishing:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A level of background noise typical of a bustling coffee shop or a television playing in a living room, about 70 decibels, was found to improve creativity when compared with the relative quiet of 50 decibels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However they also found that increasing the noise intensity to somewhere in the neighborhood of 85 decibels (equivalent to traffic noise on a major road) kills creativity completely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So there\u2019s a sort of sweet spot that must be attained and maintained if you want to reap the creativity benefits of white noise. It\u2019s a lot like tuning the dial on an old radio to get the frequency where the signal and the voice of the presenter is at its clearest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Their research has since been published in<\/span><b> The Journal of Consumer Research<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DO ALL BACKGROUND NOISES HELP CREATIVITY?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Put simply, NO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krisp.ai\/blog\/health-and-background-noise\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Background noise<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can either be continuous or intermittent but not both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is continuous when it remains constant, uninterrupted and stable over a given time period. The noise of boilers in a power house or the continuous \u201chum\u201d of machinery are relatively constant and can therefore be classified as continuous. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a coffee shop you can hardly make out any particular conversation, a table to the right Amy is telling Cassidy how she evaded a speeding ticket; a table to the left, Liana is telling Max how she almost missed her connecting flight in Chicago; multiple people are having multiple conversations all at once, so much so, that your ears are unable to make out which is which so it blends them all into a single, continuous, unintelligible chatter that we have come to recognize as coffee shop noise. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the kind of noise that the brain finds easier to tune out, the kind that might help your creativity and in turn your <a href=\"https:\/\/krisp.ai\/blog\/productivity-hacks-digital-nomads\/\">productivity<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intermittent noise on the other hand is a mix of quiet and noisy periods. This might be a freight train passing by, factory equipment that operates in cycles, or aircraft overhead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1991\" src=\"https:\/\/krisp.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/action-adult-advice-1120344.jpg\" alt=\"coworkers and background noise\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intermittent speech is one of the most common sounds in an office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You\u2019ll hear it when a colleague taps her foot incessantly at the desk at irregular intervals from the second you arrive to the second you leave. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or when co-workers suddenly decide to turn and yell questions at each other, or when someone is on a phone call listening for a while and only chiming in every now and again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This kind of noise is what affects productivity and kills it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One meta-analysis examined 242 studies of the ways noise affects productivity, and found that they all had one conclusion: intermittent noise is more harmful to productivity than continuous noise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: If you are dealing with a lot of background noise and that&#8217;s what affects productivity, you can use noise cancelling apps for improving your work and conference call experience. Noise cancelling apps like <a href=\"https:\/\/krisp.ai\/\">Krisp<\/a> help remove the background noise in calls which helps you concentrate on the call easier.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WRAPPING UP: Noise is what affects productivity both ways<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1992\" src=\"https:\/\/krisp.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bench-accounting-49025-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"person trying to work in background noise\" width=\"3500\" height=\"2338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you ever been in a situation where you badly needed to focus but there\u2019s a lot of chatter in the background? How did you fair? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you one of those that can\u2019t work without going to a coffee shop? Are there parts of this piece that made you nod in agreement saying \u201check yeah\u201d ? What about parts that made you shake your heads vigorously in disagreement saying \u201cthat can\u2019t be true.\u201d Please let me know in the comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking at it holistically, the research on consequences of noise on productivity is pretty straight forward: for majority of the work done in the knowledge economy such as marketing, education, and whatnot. Quiet is almost always the best option.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One important question to ask when deciding whether noise harms work output or not, is the nature of the work at hand. When you\u2019re doing repetitive tasks, those ones that by their nature do not require any deep mental exertion or focus. Background noise has been found to be what affects productivity negatively. 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