Can acoustic work and meet pods be the answer to office stress?
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Office workers in the contemporary workplace deal with stress day in, day out, and it reduces productivity, physical health and mental wellness.
Its overwhelming influence can be felt due to the need to be constantly available, or because of cognitive overload and the requirement to adapt quickly to technological evolution.
What adds to this problem even further is noise in the office. Frequent disturbance and too much sound-related stimuli can result in sensory overload – a condition that increases emotional stress.
You can remedy these problems by implementing a couple of simple measures, for example, using acoustic pods, which make your office more peaceful and quiet.
What is job-related stress and what are its causes?
Workplace stress involves negative responses in the body, psyche or emotions, caused by the incompatibility between employees’ work demands and their abilities, resources and needs.
Stress comes as a result of a number of factors like strenuous workloads or lack of support from managers and colleagues. Stress is also caused by unreasonable expectations on an individual, frictions within a team, a lack of work-life balance or poorly managed work conditions.
It’s important that employers realise how workplace stress impacts their employees and learn what measures to take so to minimise its adverse effects.
How digital stress has become the major challenge of modern era
We have been facing more and more stress related to workplace digitisation. This is due to our reliance on digital technology at work and in personal lives. Growing interest in telecommuting and hybrid work modes has brought about significantly higher media consumption.
Health problems like eye fatigue and headaches are just a couple of examples of the consequences. Day-to-day email and video-call communication causes digital information overload, with employees feeling exhausted by cognitive stress, and alienated due to scarce in-person contacts with managers and their teams.
What adverse effects does prolonged workplace stress have?
There have been numerous studies conducted to show how destructive stress is for our lives. Long-term exposure to too much workplace stress has physical effects ranging from cardiovascular diseases and hypertension to high muscular tonus to headaches and sleeplessness. Regarding the human psyche, the consequences of stress are, for instance, depression, anxiety attacks, social exclusion, occupational burnout, persistent fatigue, as well as low motivation and focus.
Sustained exposure to workplace stress has negative effects on team members’ work and health. More and more often, employees prefer to take leave, and firms suffer from increased staff rotation.
Are acoustic pods a remedy for noise and stress in work environments?
While it takes some thought to place the Hushoffice acoustic pods around the office space well, they make perfect hidden rooms for employees to avoid fast-paced office activity, immerse themselves when deep focus is needed or just leave stress-saturated surroundings to regenerate.
Workspaces of privacy and quiet
Acoustic work and meet pods block out all factors leading to increased stress and reduced productivity, which are noise, undesirable optical input and unnecessary sensory strain.
Perfect for large team collaboration, the hushFree.L office pods for meetings in groups provide the separation from noise and visual stimuli teams need. With these pods, you can create an ideal setting for your employees to discuss delicate issues, process sensitive information and focus on work without interruptions.
Spaces to regenerate
Pods for groups can also be used for taking a short break from being constantly connected at work. Employers can distribute them around the floor for employees to meditate, relax when listening to music or just have a break from their PC screens on cosy couches. Handling digital stress effectively involves forgetting about technology during microbreaks.
Ability to focus and think clearly
Today’s digital and multi-task work environment requires employees to develop high skills of focusing on their work. Because the office is full of distracting factors, team members tend to struggle to think clearly and remain focused on their work – which potentially leads to distress if they cannot work to agreed project time frames. With their self-contained designs based on hand-picked soundproofing materials, acoustic pods block out noise from the office floor.
Ability to focus during a video call or negotiations with business partners is key.
Our hushFree.S office booths for one user ensure snug privacy for discrete conversations without any interferences coming from the floor.
Privacy of speech is guaranteed in our acoustic pods, rated Class A according to the ISO 23351-1:2020 standard.
This type of space in the office boosts focus, and the feeling of being watched is no longer a problem. Privacy of speech and vision brings calm to the work environment and allows the users to better engage in collaboration and communication.
Acoustic pods for one person ensure a considerable reduction of stress and nervous strain during work, as they create tranquil atmosphere and minimise undesirable technological noise from the office equipment.
Comfortable work space with homely furniture
The acoustic hushFree work pods abolish stress-inducing noise, as well as enabling users to work in comfort. You have options to furnish them with any ergonomic equipment supplied, plus they incorporate user-controlled lighting and optimal ventilation systems which are triggered by a motion detection device. Thus, employees can personalise the work environment inside.
It is worth stressing the fact that a comfortable work environment greatly helps alleviate physical stress symptoms, including eye strain and bad back.
