Workplace
High confidenceWhy open-plan offices break concentration
In open plan the work staff say they lose to noise can double, and speech intelligibility predicts it better than the sound level.
- Key findings
- The measure that predicts the damage
- Why sound level is a poor guide
- Following the damage through the office
- Where the effect gives way
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