The open-office floor plan, now the standard for companies across the U.S., is supposed to encourage creative collaboration. So why are more workers putting on headphones to escape?
In the era of open-office floor plans designed to increase collaboration at the expense of privacy, more workers are finding a new space for isolation — headphones.
Experts say that contrary to concerns about fostering a team environment, listening to music at work may make workers more productive. Lesiuk collected data from employees' actual work environments over a five-week period. Out of those five weeks, participants were given three"music listening" weeks. What Lesiuk found was that State Positive Affect, or feeling content, increased from pre- to post-listening in each of the three music listening weeks, and quality-of-work was lowest during the"no music" listening period.
Spotify currently has more than 35 playlists under their"Focus" genre, including one called"Productive Morning" with over 400,000 followers and another called"Your Office Stereo" with over 150,000 followers. Spotify's"Productive Morning" uses calming, post-rock instrumentals, while"Your Office Stereo" consists of various indie and alternative selections, such as Papillon by Voyou and Darjeeling by Barrie.
Headphone use in the office predates the boom in streaming media like Spotify and Apple Music, and executives have long expressed concerns. But she added,"Organizations need to develop protocols that avoid making isolation the universal default office norm, and that encourage face-to-face interaction."
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