'Fake office noise helps me concentrate at home'

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'Fake office noise helps me concentrate at home' Sites providing the sound of printers, coffee machines and people chatting have attracted millions of hits during the crisis, as people find comfort in office 'soundboards' 🖨️☕📞

Being forced to work from home during lockdown has been isolating for many.

The sites, which provide background noises of things like printers and coffee machines, as well as people chatting, have attracted millions of hits during the crisis. However, lockdown has been his first"extended experience of isolated working" and he has found it harder to concentrate being in the same environment all the time.A friend suggested he try one of the increasingly popular"soundboards" available online , which offer a range of ambient noises and let you to control which sounds you put higher in the mix."After about a week I found the photocopier noise was annoying me, so I mixed that out.

 

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BBCWorld That's luxurious thinking in todays conditions

BBCWorld Noooooo

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I’d recommend coffitivity for this - have used it when in the office to zone out when lots of distractions preventing me getting stuff done but also used on trains a lot to focus on getting work done and zone out from conversations of other travellers

Listen to a podcast you massive weirdo

Isn’t that just jangle?

Fucked up side effect of economics and work

I actually prefer that I can hear the people I’m speaking to... when in the office conference calls were a nightmare as colleagues shouted across desks .. or swore in frustration as they encountered issues .. quieter , clearer & more focused at home 👍

BBCWorld I thought this was the onion at first

BBCWorld I agree, constant tapping of keyboards, random noises of hmmm. Maybe afternoon popcorn popping.

BBCWorld What a load of codswallop.

I use fake work noise to help me sleep. Which is what I do when I'm actually at work.

BBCWorld bhanu_bimal

gregdunbavand lad he’s not well him, who wants to hear printers an shit. In r gaff ye just hear me screaming “wish tha fuckin printer would shut up” 15 times a day

BBCWorld I find so much comfort in knowing I’m not the only person who finds comfort in office sounds.

What’s that, the girls talking about what they done on the weekend, boring you to death.

BBCWorld I use ambient sounds of play as like a cafe or a open fireplace to relax it's surprising what there little moments of music cab do for your stress and focus levels.

Actually makes some sense

What's that? A coffee percolator bubbling & air con unit whirring in the background? poofypenpushers

Mahler does it for me, but each to their own…

Get a grip

BBCWorld That’s just weird.

The New Normality, I guess. Even worse than the old one! Cretinous.

Bit like the fake cafe noises at Costa machines!

BBCWorld Is 15 mins of rattling sounds of wooden cubicle also available?

Chatting about shopping for handbags and shoes.

BBCWorld Okay urn 2

Is that after you’re late breakfast a third cup of coffee.

BBCWorld Seek help.

Rominic_Daab thx

I find it comforting listening to the sounds and smells of my neighbours cutting the grass and chattering!

Now That's What I Call Background Noise 106

Haha!

It Was Planned Years In Advance

BBCWorld That is completely insane

BBCWorld 20korg

how is the noise 'fake'? Surely a reproduction

BBCWorld Suggest It To Boris.

They must be mad! I'm enjoying being able to work in peace and quiet, and being able to hear what people are saying on the phone for a change.

Bulls..t

Total fucking jobsworths the people listening to this.

Pathetic.

BBCWorld fuck no

Slow news day isn’t it.........

It’s a NO from me thanks

BBCWorld Just please don’t let me be alone

You should try with 3 hungry/frustrated sprogs. It doesn't work.

Really ....🙄

Grow up 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

That’s like buying Spotify and only listening to Rule Britannia on repeat

the sounds help to cover the noise of his wife being drilled by the tennis instructor

Those are the exact kind of noises that drives me up the wall. I hate my office and the people who just don't shut up and get on with things.

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If NOISE is what you'll want, you'll get it. You'll won't be able to control it + a constant worry that the boss will come to ask 'What the hell is this commotion?' I'll work in a totally peacefull environment...

queroumavodka 😐

I just have my dog breathe on my neck all day - just like my boss

BBCWorld Pathetic. Adjust, it's how humans have survived for millennia. Get over this victim-I'm-so-vulnerable rubbish.

Why don't you just go back to work?

Idiots

The other advantage of fake office noise is that it can be a useful distraction for the many of us who have had tinnitus for 25 years!

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