Monday, October 15, 2012

Headphones Help Productivity

It's pretty noisy in my office so I decided to wear headphones while I work. The noise is from:
  • People talking on the phone through their ear piece
  • People on speaker phone
  • People meeting next to me
  • One guy loves to drum on his desk and the floor
  • Co-workers talking in a foreign language
So I went with the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones. Now this has definitely increased my productivity. First I don't get distracted by others conversations. Second, people don't interrupt me as much as the did before. For some reason when you wear headphones people won't interrupt you as much as they normally do.

The only down side to this is that it may be frowned upon by your boss.  I find that if I listen to music I'm familiar with it allows me to think without being distracted.

What do you think?