How Sound Affects Us

Julian Treasure has an excellent 5-minute TED talk on “4 Ways Sounds Affect Us.” Here’s one shocking fact that he gives: open plan offices decrease productivity by 66%. (He does give a simple solution to this, however.)

(HT: Jeff Paterson)

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January 5, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments 

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3 Responses to “How Sound Affects Us”

  1. Gary Horn on January 5th, 2010 11:05 am

    Fascinating analysis! It sure “rings true” for me! Thanks for sharing that.

  2. Chris on January 7th, 2010 8:21 pm

    I agree–extremely interesting.

    He did talk about “hundreds of thousands of years,” though. I wonder how that affects the rest of his research.

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