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By Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor | 4 Minutes Read June 15, 2012

Headphones are the new office walls and bring about many challenges

Open-plan offices were first introduced in the 1950s and quickly became a popular way of arranging workspaces. Businesses have implemented the open-plan office to save space and money, to foster communication and collaboration, to allow for creative thinking among workers, and for some, to remove the imposed hierarchy (status implications of office type, e.g., the corner office) created by closed office spaces. However, it turns out that sometimes an open plan office means too much communication and a loss of privacy, leading to undesirable effects.

Article by Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor / Employee Relations, Health and Safety, Privacy / background noise, course of employment, Cubicles, damage hearing, distractions, employment law, hazardous, Headphones, headphones to mask noise, health and safety risk, hearing loss, loss of privacy, noise exposures, office walls, Open plan offices, pink-noise system, policy and procedures, potential hazards, productivity of distracted workers, too much communication, workplace, workspace partition

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