YOUR BEHAVIOUR HELPS WORKPLACE DESIGN
While great workplace design can improve acoustics, and with it, employee wellbeing, satisfaction and productivity, behavior is also a critical component. Here are 6 behavior adaptations you could discuss with your team.
Speak in a low, normal voice. This is easier when one can see other occupants of the space rather than in the fictional privacy of a cubicle partitions.
Schedule lengthy calls for enclosed rooms with speaker phones.
If you know you will need access to a computer during a scheduled call, plan to use your laptop which can be moved readily to an enclosed room.
Do NOT use speaker phones at your desk in to open office. if needed, headphones with voice Piece are an acceptable alternative if the voice can be kept at a normal level. Avoid noise spa by closing meeting room doors, especially when meeting rooms are locked adjacent hated adjace to the open plan work areas.
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