If you’re not familiar with the problems of open offices by now, you probably have a door to close at work. Open offices are supposed to promote employee interaction, and to some extent they do, but ...

There’s only one thing everyone in an open office design can agree on: the noise is annoying. Distractions are the number one complaint by employees, followed closely by lack of privacy. And we all ...

Before shelter-in-place orders were issued across the country and people started working from home en masse, I used noise-cancelling headphones a lot at the office. Whether to block out colleagues ...

An "office noise generator" aims to soothe — or annoy — those working from home during coronavirus lockdowns without their customary background sounds. OK, by this point, a day at the office seems ...

In the audio world, there's always a lot of jargon and acronyms floating around. What's the difference between ANC and ENC?

Some businesses in California are in the process of reopening. But many people working from home as a result of the coronavirus pandemic may face several additional months of hunching over their ...

We've previously pointed out tools like SimplyNoise for the generation of white noise to drown out other sounds. The Scientific American suggests that, for some workers, steady background noise might ...

Office life brings together a mix of personalities and habits. Some behaviors can really test your patience and stretch out the workday. Understanding which office behaviors commonly annoy people can ...

I am a long time user of the very positively reviewed by the experts Jabra Elite 75t, and the fact is these earbuds are truly bad for phone calls with even small amounts of usual office background ...