Background Music and Performance (07-29-10)
Millions of people listen to background music every day in open or cubicle style work environments to avoid being distracted from professional tasks.
Millions of people listen to background music every day in open or cubicle style work environments to avoid being distracted from professional tasks.
Hua and her colleagues comprehensively analyzed workplaces, identifying physical factors perceived by workers to support collaborative work or linked by workers to distractions from other people’s interactions.
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A plethera of new research adds to our understanding of employee interactions with their physical workplaces.
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Knight and Haslam corroborated the findings of environmental psychologists, who have established the importance of workers’ control over their physical office environments.
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