Big offices with a lot of people working in them are noisy by nature, the murmur of conversation, the clicks and bleeps from computers and keyboards, the hum of the air conditioning, and even the friendly liquid rattle of the coffee machine can make it hard to concentrate!
There was no easy way to negate that noise until the year 2010 when Framery put the world’s first office quiet pod on the market. The development of the pod came about because the problem of too much distracting and stress-inducing noise in the office environment was finally being recognized as an impediment to people feeling relaxed and doing their best work.
The following are just some of the reasons why any noisy office should consider installing some quiet pods!
Sanity Saving – Office life can be stressful enough with just the daily ins and outs of schedules and deadlines, the high noise levels can easily turn a difficult experience into an impossible one! Office workers who were able to escape into quiet pods for part of their day were able to get significantly more amounts of work accomplished because the soundproofing shut out the distracting office chit-chat and background noises, allowing them to focus. The people who have to work in loud environments overwhelmingly suffer from stress-related illnesses that has deleterious effects on both their work performance and their personal wellness. Soundproof quiet cubes are guaranteed sanity savers!
Money Saving – Having a staff of strung-out, mentally exhausted people is a highly counterproductive situation. When you consider how much money you are saving by investing in some quiet pods thanks to their ability to calm workers so they can be more productive as well as keeping them at work instead of taking extra sick leave or personal time off, they really do pay for themselves! Moreover, on a physical pricing scale, office pods are far less expensive than having to construct new meeting rooms, saving you big money!
Benefits Communication – It might sound odd at first, maybe even a bit counterproductive to think that something specifically designed to be soundproof can actually help to facilitate office communications, but they really do! Quiet pods can be connected by intercoms, and many can seat up to six people comfortably, so they become the ideal place for coworkers to get comfortable in and informally talk with each other in private beyond the earshot of others in order to share sensitive information or cook up exciting new ideas that they want to keep under wraps until they are ready to be unveiled! Having a quiet space available to meet and focus more effectively in is really just sound business practise!
Promote Focus – Studies show that the average person faces a minor distracted roughly every 45 seconds of the day, and it takes at least 25 minutes to regain focus after a major interruption! Those surprising results have major implications about productivity! People complain they have a difficult time concentrating in an open plan noisy office, so installing soundproof quiet pods can keep them focused and on task!
Are you convinced yet? Give one a try for yourself, it’s nice and quiet in here!