Create workplaces that sound good for everyone

The reception area is your first opportunity to make a good impression on your visitors. So, it’s important to create a memorable one, with a clear focus on well-being. By integrating acoustics into the design phase, you can ensure speech clarity and speech privacy while maintaining visual appeal.

Circulation and breakout areas are great spaces for impromptu meetings. But you need to think about the acoustics. If the sound from these conversations travels throughout the building, it can interrupt employees who are trying to concentrate.

Huddle zones welcome ad-hoc, informal collaboration and typically don’t require booking. They are, however, frequently tucked near core working areas, so poor room-to-room insulation can defeat their entire purpose.

Also known as focus pods, private zones allow for undisturbed phone calls, private meetings, and quiet work. Acoustics have a dual effect here: noise disturbances shouldn’t travel in, and speech shouldn’t travel out.

In this flexible seating concept, desks are booked in advance and on a temporary basis. Desk hotelling is usually employed as part of a hybrid workplace model where employees expect the comforts of home to be matched (or surpassed).

Employees are likely to spend the majority of their day, week, and year at their dedicated workstation. When cognitive tasks are interrupted by noise day in and day out, that compromised productivity eventually aggregates.

Both speech intelligibility and confidentiality are essential in meeting rooms so sound absorption and sound insulation are paramount. And because so many different people use these shared spaces, it's important to keep their surfaces hygienic.