You're under deadline, trying to concentrate and attempting to be productive, but your coworkers are chattering nearby about next weekend's plans. How can you tune them out so you can tune into your work? Noise in the workplace is a common occurrence, but more importantly it's distracting. It prevents you from focusing, thus decreases your ability to concentrate and be productive. Short of adding 10-foot walls, create a peaceful, quiet environment free of distractions by adding soothing background sound, such as a waterfall or white noise, to make intruding speech and sounds disappear and your task gets the concentration it needs. |  |