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Intelligible speech cuts staff attention most on an open floor
Verbal short-term memory begins to fall at a speech transmission index of 0.21 to 0.44, on a staff bill that a 2006 REHVA guidebook puts at 100 to 200 times the energy bill.
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19 factorsheets carry the studies for and against, each with how firm that evidence is.
- Speech distraction lowers satisfaction in open-plan offices.
- Equivalent continuous sound level (LAeq) lowers sleep quality in intensive care units.
- Speech distraction probably lowers productivity.
- Speech distraction probably lowers comfort.
- Equivalent continuous sound level (LAeq) probably lowers satisfaction.
- Equivalent continuous sound level (LAeq) probably raises stress.
- Equivalent continuous sound level (LAeq) has a non-linear effect on sustained attention.
- Speech intelligibility probably raises academic performance.
- Speech distraction lowers working memory.
- Equivalent continuous sound level (LAeq) probably lowers comfort.
- Speech intelligibility probably lowers sustained attention.
- Speech distraction probably raises stress.
- Speech intelligibility probably lowers satisfaction.
- Speech distraction lowers memory recall.
- Speech distraction raises error rate.
- Equivalent continuous sound level (LAeq) probably lowers working memory.
- Speech distraction probably lowers perceived privacy.
- Speech distraction probably lowers sustained attention.
- Speech intelligibility lowers perceived privacy.