Office Soundproofing

Noise in the Office

As you know, employee productivity is decreased by noise distraction, and it affects your bottom line. However, you may not realize how much of an affect it has. Often, improving acoustics with office soundproofing pays for itself by the increase in your company’s productivity.

Companies come to us because they need a quieter work environment for their employees. Many of our customers need to reduce the noise created in the open floor plans and cubicles now popular in offices today.

While these floor plans may encourage interaction between colleagues and save space and money, they cause office soundproofing problems. And these problems cost you money.

What can Office Soundproofing do for you ?

• Decrease distractions, which ultimately increases concentration and quality work

• Make conversations clear, resulting in better communication between employees

• Provide a better working environment so your company keeps good employees

• Keep areas private, ensuring your business’ confidential information is not at risk

How do you know which type of Office Soundproofing you need ?

Here’s an easy 2-step process to determine which you need:

Step 1: Identify WHAT noise you hear.

Is it someone’s voice? It is noisy office equipment? Is it the traffic outside your window? There are typically many noise distractions in an office setting, so be sure to prioritize your list.

Step 2: Identify WHERE the noise is coming from.

Is the noise coming from inside the same space as you, or is it coming from a separate room? For instance, is it the voice of someone on the phone in the office across the hall? Is it the sound of the copier sitting next to you? If there’s a construction element, such as a wall, that separates you from the noise, then it’s not in the same space as you.

Most of the companies that come to us with sound problems need both office soundproofing and sound absorption materials.

Sound control in an office is more important than ever. There was a time when office soundproofing was not as much of a concern — when executives were locked in individual offices doing their work while the only sound in the outer office was the secretaries clicking away at their typewriters.

Today’s office environments are quite a bit different than those of the past. The responsibilities of different employees are often in flux, as are their needs. Some workers may need to communicate with other team members frequently, while others may need total silence and focus to do individual work. In many cases, the same person has both needs at different times depending upon the situation.

While today’s office workers spend roughly half or more of their time doing office work, offices are more collaborative than ever, with workers frequently breaking into small teams for concentrated discussions. While these discussions are important, without sound management in an office, they can be distracting to workers trying to focus on their individual projects.

In addition, many of today’s offices follow an open or semi-open floor plan, meaning everyone can hear everyone else’s phone calls, and rowdier departments may disrupt departments that have more of a need for quiet and concentration.

Soundproofing an office can provide the answer. Office soundproofing can improve worker focus and satisfaction, leading to increased productivity. But what is the best way to soundproof a modern office in today’s environment?

How to Soundproof an Office

When soundproofing an office, it’s important to think about office sound control methods that will be relatively unobtrusive to your workers. If office soundproofing efforts cause a distraction or interfere with communication among workers on a daily basis, it defeats the purpose. On the other hand, if you can develop office sound control techniques that are functional and cost-effective without interfering, your office can benefit tremendously.

One great way to manage soundproofing in an office is through the use of acoustic panels. Acoustic panels are specially cut panels made of sound-deadening and sound absorption materials that contain sound within a defined area, so people in communication can easily hear each other without disturbing anyone else.

These office soundproofing panels can go directly onto the partitions you’re already using to break up different parts of your open office plan, or they can go on walls or ceilings where you need to contain the sound in a space.

Art Acoustic Panels for Your Office From Global Acoustic

Global Acoustic offers art acoustic panels made of the highest-quality sound-absorbing and sound deadening materials, while also beautifying your space. These panels feature your choice of a variety of artistic designs to match the décor of your office. These are art panels you might install to beautify a drab office to begin with, but these have the added benefit of controlling the sound in your office so that your workers can communicate, concentrate and work better.

Global Acoustic has a variety of great solutions for your office soundproofing or other soundproofing needs, whether you have a large office or small, an open floor plan or a more traditional office environment. To find out more about all the soundproofing options Global Acoustic can offer you for your office, restaurant, home or other loud environment, contact us today!

Soundproofing Office Solutions

It may be cost-effective and trendy to use a large open office floorplan, but when business is booming how to we keep conversations separate and employees as comfortable as possible?  Easy: with soundproof desk dividers!

When you need to partition out office space, portable sound proof desk dividers will give you the noise cancellation properties you need to improve communication within each partitioned area. In addition, this kind of affordable noise cancellation solution for offices is not only functional, but stylish as well.  Acoustic desk dividers are available in a variety of colors, textures and patterns that can be designed to match your interior design needs.

Noise-absorbing fiberglass is the key to making office soundproofing materials so effective at controlling echo and unwanted noise. Soundproofing cubicles allow everyone to enjoy private conversations, minimal distraction from other groups and the feeling that they actually have the office to themselves. Easy to set up and created to optimize all floor area sizes, our acoustic desk dividers are shipped to you assembled so all you need to do is arrange them.

How to Soundproof an Office: Start by Forgetting About Hiring Expensive Remodeling Contractors

What’s the next-best alternative to a high dollar project like a full remodel or a new office building? Purchasing affordable office sound reduction panels, of course! If your company is growing and you need extra working areas, soundproof desk dividers will give you private, hushed spaces.  Treat additional desks, noisy equipment and even mini-conference rooms by arranging partitions in a way that gives you the privacy and solace you need.  You’ve got a low-cost, instant solution to your office noise and space issues.

Quiet the Echo … Echo … Echo With Hanging Acoustic Panels

Designed to suppress reverberation in echo-prone spaces, Global Acoustic’s hanging acoustic baffles minimize echoes to enhance everyone’s ability to understand speech, while simultaneously eliminating annoying noise clutter. An effective alternative to acoustic office dividers, hanging panels make great soundproofing office solutions that address aesthetic needs by offering a variety of thicknesses, sizes, colors and materials.

Suspending acoustic baffles in perpendicular orientation to ceilings not only creates a stunningly impressive visual impact, but also contributes to improving the acoustical properties of any space. When suspended vertically, hanging acoustic baffles offer noise absorption to clarify speech and reduce sound clutter achieving high, middle and low frequencies.

First-rate acoustic baffles for office noise reduction offer the following advantages:

• Made of flame-retardant, materials
• Lightweight and simple to hang (just use S-hooks or chains)
• Resilient and impact-resistant
• High-performance NCR (noise reduction coefficient
• Most options are Environmentally friendly

We hope we’ve answered the question that’s kept you awake one too many nights: “how do I go about reducing noise in my office?” If we haven’t (or even if we have), call us at Global Acoustic today, your source for all things quiet, at +90 506 537 36 50.