Acoustic White Paper

Privacy, and the ability to concentrate, are essential for individual focus work as well as privatecollaboration. People need to be able to hear what they want to hear, when they want to hear it. They also need to know that confidential conversations are protected. Yet, knowledge workers continue to identify noise and the lack of speech privacy as leading sources of dissatisfaction in the workplace. Tackling noise and poor privacy requires an understanding of 1) speech intelligibility, 2) ways to address unwanted speech and noise, and 3) how construction elements work together for optimal acoustical performance in the workplace.