{"id":5991,"date":"2012-05-31T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T06:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2012-05-31T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T06:36:41","slug":"wearing-headphones-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2012\/05\/wearing-headphones-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearing headphones at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When visiting other institutes, I frequently see scientists wearing headphones ( I only use my Bose headphones to make noise &#8211; only yesterday I couldn&#8217;t resist t download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/293573191\/open-goldberg-variations-setting-bach-free\">free Goldberg variations<\/a>\u00a0from Kickstarter ). <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/05\/30\/2115211\/do-headphones-help-or-hurt-productivity?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29\">entertainment.slashdot.org<\/a> now details what I already feared<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In survey after survey, office workers report with confidence that music makes us happier, better at concentrating, and more productive. But science says we&#8217;re full of it, writes Thompson. &#8216;Listening to music hurts our ability to recall other stimuli, and any pop song \u2014 loud or soft \u2014 reduces overall performance for both extroverts and introverts.&#8217; So if headphones are so bad for productivity, why do so many people at work have headphones? The answer is that personal music creates a shield both for listeners and for those walking around usm says Thompson. &#8216;I am here, but I am separate. In a wreck of people and activity, two plastic pieces connected by a wire create an aura of privacy.&#8217; We assume that people wearing them are busy or oblivious, so now people wear them to appear busy or oblivious \u2014 even without music. Wearing soundless headphones is now a common solution to productivity blocks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More morking hacks at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/blog\/tabid\/6307\/bid\/19226\/40-Brilliant-Work-Hacks-to-Improve-Your-Marketing-Productivity.aspx\">blog.hubspot.com<\/a>, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When visiting other institutes, I frequently see scientists wearing headphones ( I only use my Bose headphones to make noise &#8211; only yesterday I couldn&#8217;t resist t download the free Goldberg variations\u00a0from Kickstarter ). entertainment.slashdot.org now details what I already feared &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[2752,2750,2751],"class_list":["post-5991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-computer-software","tag-concentration","tag-headphones","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}