Get acoustic design right to boost office productivity

You are sitting in your cubicle busy working on a client proposal that you need to discuss with your boss in the evening. A cellphone ring interrupts your train of thought. The person in the next cubicle answers the phone in a loud voice forgetting that nearly everything he says can be heard from 10 cubes away. You put on your headphones and turn on some music to block the noise but to no avail. Soon, you feel like banging your head against the wall. This is a story that happens in many offices across the country today. But why is that nothing gets done? Is it because we accept “noise” as a given in our daily lives?
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