Great Britain: the mp3 player allows employees to isolate themselves in open space

A quarter of British workers isolate themselves in the office thanks to an mp3 music player, but the practice is not commonplace yet and has already been forbidden in one third of firms. (Ref. 061083)
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The inquiry conducted in 100 firms by Woods Bagot reveals that 22 % of workers listen during three hours a day to an mp3 player in their office. For Simon Pole, author of the study, “this is the best way to create a virtual office “. Because there are more and more open space offices, the isolation in music enables workers to establish walls instead of those that no longer exist. The mp3 player is a good way, for instance, to not hear a colleague’s phone calls. One of the negative effects of th

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