The Power of Sound Masking and Acoustic Privacy
“Noise distractions result in office workers being interrupted every 11 minutes.
And it can take them up to 23 minutes to get back into the “flow” of
what they were doing prior to the interruption.”
–Cambridge Sound Management
Just imagine the impact of that statement in your environment!
Prevent Office Distractions. Protect Patient Privacy.
safeguard your classified information.
…with Sound Masking.
Business
Elevate Your Workspace:
The Advantages of Sound Masking
Transform your business environment with advanced sound masking solutions from Cambridge Sound Management.
This science blends subtle ambient sounds into your workspace, reducing distractions and obscuring intrusive pieces of nearby conversations.
This results in an environment where your focus and productivity thrive. You enjoy uninterrupted thought, continuing concentration and more efficient work.
Medical
The Acute Need for Speech Privacy with Sound Masking in Healthcare Settings
Above all, privacy should be part of the entire patient experience, but in most waiting rooms, reception areas, and pharmacy counters, speech privacy is virtually nonexistent. Patients often overhear conversations between office personnel and other patients.
In addition to being a HIPAA violation, this fosters a negative patient experience where they feel uncomfortable, embarrassed and potentially less likely to have frank conversations with caregivers and staff.
Government
Enhanced Security and Privacy with Sound Masking
Sound masking represents a cutting-edge approach, utilizing a unique ambient sound, somewhat like airflow, specifically engineered to obscure human speech. Cambridge Sound crafted this method to match human speech frequencies and volumes, reducing the clarity of nearby conversations and minimizing the likelihood of accidental eavesdropping.
Our solutions are exceptionally suited for enhancing verbal communication security within sensitive areas such as government facilities and contractors workspaces especially around SCIFs.
Discover the transformative power of effective sound management with state-of-the-art sound masking systems by Cambridge. These scientifically devised solutions integrate unobtrusive ambient sounds into your workspace, establishing a less distracting environment in which to think, write, converse, create, organize, all without the intrusion of those unintended fragments of overheard conversation from a few cubes away.
All of these (and so many more) enticing bits of chitchat can break your train of thought in a second:
“…didn’t get the promotion…”
“…taken to the hospital…”
“…their party Saturday night…”
“…to Europe next week…”
“…and then my doctor told me…”
“…once he admitted…”
“Noise distractions result in office workers being interrupted every 11 minutes.” 1 And it can take them up to 23 minutes to get back into the “flow” of what they were doing prior to the interruption!
But, when the clarity of a nearby conversation is blurred by sound masking, it ceases to be a distraction. The progression of your thinking remains uninterrupted, your attention-to-detail goes up as you remain focused on the task at hand, thus improving your overall productivity.
Cambridge Sound Management, now a Biamp company, is the creator of Sound Masking. Uniquely, this technology enhances workplace tranquility and privacy, contributing significantly to employee efficiency and overall productivity. Elevate your workplace atmosphere with economical sound masking solutions, designed for peak performance and comfort.
Sound Masking
…plays such a crucial role in enhancing comfort and efficiency in the workplace that it is ranked the Number One influencer of employee productivity!
Acoustic Privacy
…is designed to reduce noise distractions and improve speech privacy in open office spaces and other environments where acoustic isolation is important.
Applied Technology
Sound Masking is barely noticeable and sounds similar to airflow, but it’s specifically tuned to the frequencies and amplitudes of human speech to make words less intelligible.
sound masking makes medical environments feel more private and comfortable.
Patients should have a sense of privacy in any medical setting and and need to know that their medical data is safe and secure. Protecting patient privacy is not only important for delivering a superior patient experience but is also required for HIPAA compliance and by law. This includes both data transferred electronically as well as verbally.
Ensuring that discussions between doctors and patients in treatment rooms aren’t overheard by unintended listeners or that patients in a waiting area can’t overhear other patients checking in with the receptionist, is essential.
Sound masking increases performance and pays for itself in increased Employee productivity.
Economic Facts:
On average, employees waste 21.5 minutes per day due to conversational distractions, making lack of speech privacy the number one cause of reduced productivity in the typical workplace. 21.5 minutes daily is roughly 4% of an average employee’s work day (based on an 8 hour day.) A company with 100 employees and an average employee salary cost of $50,000 is losing $200,000 a year in lost productivity. And this is an easily solvable problem.
And sound masking even boosts morale: Lack of speech privacy is the number one driver of worker dissatisfaction according to a recent survey of 25,000 office workers.
Cambridge Sound Masking
Cambridge Sound Management, a company of Biamp Systems, specializes in sound masking technology for the workplace. They are widely recognized as pioneering this technology having introduced the concept in the late 1960s. And Cambridge has since become the leading provider of sound masking solutions for numerous industries. Their technology is designed to reduce noise distractions and improve speech privacy in open office spaces and other environments where acoustic privacy is important.
- Low-impact installation – Perfect for both new construction and retrofits
- Completely scalable solutions suitable for any size space
- Office paging, background music, and sound masking capabilities all from a single loudspeaker
- Network capabilities for easy control, customization, and system integration
- An affordable alternative to expensive construction projects or sound blocking materials
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