More than 40 million North Americans work in open-plan offices featuring partial height panels. Granted, these cubicles make better use of space and improve communication flow, but they’re an acoustical challenge.

Traditional walls have given way to modular furniture systems, more employees use the same space, and everyone is seated closer together. At the same time, absorptive treatments, quieter air handling, and new construction methods and office equipment have lowered the background sound level. That may sound like a good thing – and to some extent, it is – but without background sound, it’s easier to hear distracting things happening around your desk.

Think of a library. The difference between the low background sound level and the high volume of speech or noise makes the latter seem louder. You can understand a conversation taking place up to 50 feet away! Are closed offices the solution? It seems you get privacy, but in fact, sound often leaks from one office to the next through the ceiling or air transfer components. Then a closed door accomplishes nothing.

A sound masking system helps to address these problems by distributing a comfortable, engineered background sound throughout your workplace.

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